Eamonn Maloney (Dublin South West, Labour)

I so not support this motion and I will vote against it. It is a motion calling for a default. A section of parliamentarians elected to this House talk about burning bondholders etc., and withholding the money but in the 11 months that I have been here, I have not seen a single person who takes this line who has the courage to put down a motion calling for Ireland to default. They couch their motions in language such as this one to try to avoid the real choice between-----

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