Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

The Government got into power under false pretences. It has no mandate for the various economic policies it has pursued since its election. We all remember what was said back in February 2011 by the parties which now make up the Government: “We were going to burn the bondholders”; “there would not be another cent for the banks”; “it was going to be Labour’s way, not Frankfurt’s”; “the vulnerable were going to be protected and-----

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