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

-----and whose economy has been destroyed with the imposition of that austerity. Is it not the case that this taken alongside the insulting comment the Minister made about feta cheese, which was insulting to the Greek people who are suffering, are not only insulting to the Greeks but indicate the Minister's Government is still, along with Angela Merkel, promoting the austerity agenda, which has crippled growth and done such damage to the lives of ordinary citizens here and across Europe, instead of seriously addressing the question of growth, which requires an end to the austerity agenda and real investment in putting people back to work? The Minister is playing something of a double game in talking about growth on the one hand and arguing for austerity on the other hand, particularly when he is over in Europe with his EU partners.

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