Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

That has happened despite his best efforts behind the backs of the people to avoid a referendum. The question relating to Davos is whether the stock in trade of the Government is being two-faced and duplicitous when it comes to saying one thing to the people here and saying quite different things when talking to the high and mighty in Davos or in the European Union. On the one hand the Taoiseach told the people here he did not blame them and that they were not responsible for the economic crisis. Then he told people in Davos - in many cases precisely the people who helped cause the economic crisis and were guilty of all the greed he mentioned - that people went mad borrowing. He did not say that some people went mad borrowing. He did not say that a few super-rich people went mad borrowing. He did not say that the cronies of Fianna Fáil went mad borrowing.

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