Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Does the Minister agree that ordinary people and taxpayers will find it beyond belief that he did not discuss this issue with the United States Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Geithner, who, we believe, vetoed the burning of tens of billions of bondholders' bad gambling debts at a G7 meeting and therefore was directly responsible for contributing at any rate to have that burden continued on the shoulders of the Irish people?

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