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

I appeal to the Taoiseach to allow for a debate before noon on the question of paying the Anglo Irish Bank bondholder. There are two simple reasons. The Tánaiste, in January of this year, described specifically the decision to pay off Anglo Irish Bank bondholders at the expense of the Irish taxpayer as economic treason. That is a serious charge. Now he is continuing with that act of economic treason and not even allowing a debate or a vote on this decision. The second reason is simple. The value of the budget cuts to our health service which are resulting-----

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