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

The European Council meeting will just be a rubber stamp for what they have decided, which is that they want the power to ram more austerity - more economic shock therapy - down our throats and those of other European states. It seems the only thing the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste are worried about is that the people of this country might have a say about that. They are not worried about the fact the European leaders want more power to ram austerity down the throats of workers, the vulnerable and the poor, they are not worried about the fact they are demanding the sale of our State assets, but they are desperately worried that there might be a referendum in which the people of this country would have some say, because they know that if there was the people would say "No".

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