Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage

5:10 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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For what it is worth, my interpretation of the game-changer, and various things are being attributed to that term, was Cyprus and the resistance of the Cypriot people which forced the change in policy where countries had a bail-in. I welcome the bail-in, and the Minister's point is well made and reasonable but-----