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

No, I am suggesting welshing on bankers' debt. If half of the social welfare budget, which is €21 billion, is accounted for by people who are now on the dole, and it costs us some €10 billion to keep them on the dole when they want to work, we could make up the deficit by simply putting them back to work-----

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