I had a very specific choice. I had the opportunity—of course, I would have had to seek the authority of the House—to introduce a general Bill to allow me to make bilateral loans to any number of countries. That legislation would have been very easy to draw up, and it would have been easy to ask the House for its support. I have explicitly restricted this to a Loans to Ireland Bill because of the specific connections between our two economies.
Loans to Ireland Bill
Proceeding contribution from
George Osborne
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 15 December 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Loans to Ireland Bill.
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