Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)

I was going to respond to Deputy Boyd Barrett but, as he is no longer present in the House, I will refrain from so doing. I do not know whether he, or those with similar views to his, have ever run a business and had to borrow money from a lending institution. If one goes back to that lending institution to say one is defaulting, the immediate aftermath would be economic anarchy with crisis after crisis unfolding. For those who have not read their history, that happened in Europe previously and many people remember it.

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