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

I must put it to the Minister that yet again deception is being exercised on our people, particularly in advance of the vote in the referendum on the fiscal treaty. Members of the Government are talking about and using the word "growth" a good deal. We have heard its use again by the Minister, the Taoiseach uses it a good deal and there is good deal of talk about it around the European Council summit. However, in practice, we get austerity.

According to the German newspaper, Der Spiegel, at the ECOFIN meeting referred to in the questions, the Minister was reported as having berated the Greek Government for failing to robustly enough impose austerity on the Greek citizens. These are the same Greek citizens who have been massacred with cuts under austerity-----

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