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

We do not promise stability, at least not in the short run. The Government should not have promised it, but having promised stability, it should deliver it. One would have to be living in a parallel universe to imagine that a decision taken last Thursday or the rushing through of the ESM would lead to stability. Can Deputy Durkan stand over that?

There is rampant and well-founded speculation that if the people of Greece are not willing to take even more poisonous doses of austerity, which has already decimated Greek society and its economy, Greece will be forced out of the eurozone. No one knows whether that will happen. There is no certainty.

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