Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)

We will start from the beginning now. The beginning is the legislation before us and where we go from here, how we protect the Irish taxpayer and how we bring liquidity back into the system. As a Member of the Green Party, Comhaontas Glas, I must point my party's disagreement with the concept of the need to get back to economic growth. In the narrow economic thinking, the voodoo economics under which the global system operates, we may need to do this, but long term one cannot have unbridled economic growth because one of the main factors of production is scarce. The resources of this planet are scarce. We cannot continue producing as if there is no tomorrow. We must find a different, more sustainable model.

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