Michael D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I apologise. With the exception of the Labour Party, almost everyone got aboard that train, including Sinn Féin. When we got into government, we took the position of meeting the troika, the Central Bank and others - those who are funding this State - and telling them that we were not satisfied. I was not a party to those conversations, but I do not doubt that the people guaranteeing more than ¤300 billion, the ELA and the State to keep bank machines working and public servants paid had something to say about our preferred starting position and direction.