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

-----between the loans and the answer just given by the Taoiseach, to the effect that he refuses even to raise the issue of this punitive interest rate? Why on earth would we thank the British Prime Minister, Mr. David Cameron, for imposing a punitive interest rate on the working and vulnerable people of our society in order to pay back bankers and bondholders? This is punishment imposed on Irish working people for the reckless gambling of bankers and speculators.

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