Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised with Chancellor Merkel the issue of the effect of ECB interest rate policy and the lending of German, French and other banks in fuelling the property and financial bubble and consequent crash here; and in that context if he requested a write-down of the Irish debt burden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11236/12]

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