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Seanad: European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (22 Sep 2011): John Gilroy: ...Portugal in particular become fiscally sustainable. As Irish legislators we can only welcome this, irrespective of what we think of what led us here. Although it pains me to use the awful phrase "we are where we are", the Bill represents an upside for Ireland and a win for the negotiators on the Government side. I hope Senator Byrne and his colleagues, who easily and fully praise...

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