Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Having travelled before the election to meet his political big sister, Frau Merkel, to establish what we thought was a best friendship forever on the basis that she would insist on supporting a reduction in interest rates and burning bondholders, what has happened? Has the Taoiseach abandoned completely the promises he made and his strong hint that his Government would demand the speculators take at least some of their losses? They should take them all.

I ask the Taoiseach to acknowledge that the crisis in Greece is not utterly different-----

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