Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

My question to the Taoiseach was to outline the issues he intends to prioritise for the EU summit. Unfortunately, he did not answer that question so I must ask a number of key supplementary questions. It beggars belief that the Taoiseach did not come in here today and say that his priorities for the EU Heads of State meeting were the conditions laid down by the EU-IMF-ECB diktats, a demand for the interest rate to be cut and burning of the bondholders. Should that not be the overriding issue for the meeting of the EU Heads of Government? If not, why not?

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