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

I share the Minister's concern, as I noted earlier. We are at a very serious point. The Greek Finance Minister rightly stated that we could be facing a house of cards if Greece is forced out because the ECB, Angela Merkel and other Governments are insisting on this hard-line refusal of a write down and making any deal conditional on keeping with a programme that the Greek people simply can no longer take. I ask the Minister why we appear to be siding with Angela Merkel and the ECB rather than acknowledging that the Greeks have a point.