IMF aid first review

THE IMF will conduct its first review of Ireland’s bailout in February and will then consider the impact of any changes in government, said IMF spokeswoman Caroline Atkinson in Washington, Atkinson was asked about calls from opposition parties to renegotiate the aid package to allow for more government spending on economic stimulus measures and potential losses to senior bondholders.

“I think that it makes more sense to think about what whoever is in power has as a policy once that has happened than to speculate in advance how it might be,” Atkinson said.