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

I apologise. I did not know. It is wrong to railroad this legislation through the House in just a few hours. The Government should allow for a proper debate. Instead, this is a continuation of the sucking up to Angela Merkel despite the fact that no matter how much the Government does so, she slaps it down and humiliates it. She is giving it nothing. When will the Government realise that sacrificing the interests of our society and of ordinary people in Ireland to please Frau Merkel is not working and we need to take a different tack?

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