The policies have been described as a "sticking plaster" or just "one-piece of the jigsaw".
But we need a long term solution to this, not just this short-term sticking plaster.
He criticised efforts to recruit GPs from overseas saying it was like putting "a sticking plaster on a gaping sore".
He told MPs that any future financial rescue package for Ireland must address underlying economic problems rather than act as a "sticking plaster".
That is why investors see any purchases by the European Central Bank of Spanish and Italian debt as - at best - a sticking plaster.
Some reporting comes close to repeatedly ripping a sticking plaster off.
The question then for the countries with warships in the region is this: Do they have the long-term commitment to keep funding a force that is at best a sticking plaster for the problem?
The sticking plaster is only useful if it gives Italy and Spain sufficient time to persuade the markets that they have their deficits on a sustainable downward trend and their public finances are being properly fixed.
To avoid it just being a sticking plaster it would have to come with large amounts of fiscal transfer, as suggested on 21 July, in the form a quasi-Marshall Plan (since eurobonds are off the agenda due to the German court ruling).
The ECB is regarded as having provided a sticking-plaster rather than a cure for what ails the eurozone.
IMF, but it will be a mere sticking-plaster over a festering financial wound.
"There are the short-term sticking-plaster steps of a proper firewall to prevent contagion around Europe, a much more decisive settlement for Greece... strengthening the European banks, " he told Sky News.
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