Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Yes. That is exactly what I am doing. The first item should be changed. I was saying, to enlighten the Taoiseach, that one bondholder is in fact a private Swiss bank which is substantially owned by the family of a Greek shipping magnate, who are bleeding dry not only the working class and poor of Greece but of this State as well. I call for a variation of the Order of Business to allow an emergency motion that the Dáil agrees that this bond should not be paid today. This will give the Fine Gael and Labour Party Deputies an opportunity of standing with the Irish people and the taxpayers rather than with the speculators of Europe. When Deputies vote on this, what they are voting on-----

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