Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I am not going to participate any further. Deputies have the right to ask questions for as long as they want, but let us get to the vote and bring to an end this painful charade in order that we can at least mark our resistance to this further consolidation in trying to solve the problems of the financial system of Europe on the backs of the Irish, Greek and German peoples, with everybody else.

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