Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

This is because the road the Tánaiste's colleague, Mr. Papandreou, has taken, and New Democracy before him, during the past two years has been a disaster. That is clear and the suffering of the Greek people is testament to it. The policy of austerity is ruining Greece and its people. The Tánaiste says one cannot spend what one does not have. But apparently the Labour Party and Fine Gael can give billions of euro that we do not have to bankers, bondholders and speculators.

lmost 100 years ago the great socialist James Connolly, who co-founded the Labour Party, and would reject with contempt its current role----

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