Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Why can the Taoiseach not get the point that ordinary people around Europe see that the Taoiseach is capitulating to what is effectively an economic dictatorship of the markets? Does the Taoiseach agree that he himself contributed to this assault on democratic rights by joining with Merkel, Sarkozy and the rest of them and capitulating to what is, after all, an assorted bunch of chancers, cheats, spivs and speculators that constitutes the financial markets?

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