Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

The disastrous decisions on the banking system made by successive Governments and the majority in the Dáil have been the source of much of the crisis we are experiencing and the suffering of our people to bail out speculators and gamblers. At the very least we deserve a full and thorough opportunity to go through the experience of the past three years and not least for Labour Party backbenchers to explain their U-turn in this regard. They need to explain why instead of standing by the citizens and the working people, they are standing by the speculators.

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