Olivia Mitchell (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to debate the following urgent matter: the need for a debate on the current bailout crisis; the need for solidarity in the face of external attack; the need to debate all our other options no matter how appalling they may be; the possible potential of an immediate all-party budget to defuse the current crisis; the absolute imperative of resisting external pressure to seek a bailout which would lock us indefinitely into penal bond rates; the need to remind other countries, particularly Germany, that it was low interest rates, especially in the 1990s, dictated by Germany and designed to support its sluggish economy even while it was inappropriate to ours that at least in part caused our property bubble and the requirement for it to reciprocate that support and to respect our national determination to retain our sovereignty.

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