Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

And, Mr. Cowen, when ... essentially, what many people would regard as a horrific programme of austerity was to be imposed on the Irish people to bail out the banks, did you ever consider a referendum of the Irish people on that bailout programme? And, in retrospect, how do you justify putting a burden of €64 billion on the ordinary people for debts of banks and bondholders that they had no responsibility for?