David Norris (Independent)

With regard to the campaign for the new fiscal treaty, I believe this treaty will impose considerable austerity for generations to come. We will undoubtedly be in a vice. This is tying us in; it is bullying from Germany. That country is at it again. The entire system is rotten and should be pulled down. This Government is collaborating. It has appointed Goldman Sachs as advisers for floating some of the European bonds. This is an organisation that was criminally complicit in cooking the books for Greece. That is the mess we are in.

Taxes have caused every revolution. Unfair taxes caused the French and American revolutions. Believe me, they will cause a revolution in Europe, or they should. Once again, the people are not being considered. It is a system. It is exactly what happened with the Famine. Centralised authorities have imposed unjust economic theories and worked them out in practice on the living flesh of the people of Europe. In the case of the Famine, it was the people of this country. I am 100% against it. At last, thank God, one little country is being allowed to have a referendum. Look at what happened to Greece when it sought a referendum. Its Government was kicked out by centralised Europe. Thank God for Ireland. It can speak for the people of the rest of Europe and demand democracy back from our masters in Berlin, who are at it again. They are bullying.

As I pointed out yesterday in the foreign affairs committee to their Minister for propaganda, they are also rearming. This time, however, they are not arming themselves but Israel, with a new submarine being built in Kiel.