Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

The unemployment figures, the haemorrhage of emigration, the collapsed domestic economy and the misery facing struggling families all stand as testimony to a failed policy, a damning indictment of the "bailout for the banks and cuts for the people" policy the Labour Party now so warmly embraces. The burden of private bank debt must be lifted from the shoulders of citizens. It is not our debt and we cannot pay it back. It is not sustainable, as the dogs in the street know.

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