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

The case the Minister makes for having to impose the "adjustment" as he calls it of €3.6 billion, which means, as he acknowledges, such severe austerity for ordinary people in the country is that we must deal with the deficit problem and that we have no choice but to borrow the money.

As an aside, although I do not think the Minister will agree with me-----

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