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

Yes, and now it is the ESM, which is not being discussed properly. The Government wants to ram it through to prove again to Mrs. Angela Merkel what good boys and girls we are. There will be no discussion on it despite the fact the ESM has profound implications. Throughout the referendum debate the Government presented the ESM as if it was some sort of benevolent fund which was there to assist the people when there was so much more involved in it. Whether one agrees or disagrees, it is utterly dishonest to suggest that is all there is to it, that it is just an insurance policy or a benevolent fund. Serious issues arise from the ESM that must be debated properly. It would be utterly dishonest of the Government to say the people of this country are acquainted in any serious way with the contents of the ESM treaty because they are not. It has not been discussed.

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