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

Does the Taoiseach recognise the effectiveness of the Greek resistance to this package and how it is forcing a debate among the EU authorities about burning the bondholders? It is what we all know must be done to relieve the ordinary people of this country. Should we not meet with the Greeks, the Portuguese and the Spanish to discuss that and recognise that we stand or fall together and we will only stand, rather than fall, if we resist this insane package, the austerity and the attempt to unload the speculators' debts onto the backs of ordinary people?

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