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

Amusement is not the reason we are here. Given the severity of the crisis ripping through the eurozone and the serious uncertainty about the outcome of this crisis, the very least the people of this country are entitled to is that the Taoiseach would report back after the European Council meeting to discuss the outcome and the implications of it.

Given that even the Taoiseach has acknowledged in previous discussions on the possibility of a significant write-down of Greek debt that this might open up some opportunities for Irish debt to be written down, although that has not materialised-----

See this speech in context