John Halligan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let us cut to the chase. Passing the bank debt on to our grandchildren is not a solution no matter how one dresses it up. Any such deal would be pitiful and a humiliating outcome for the Irish people. This moral and unjust imposition of private bank debt on the country and its resources, citizens and future cannot continue and we need to give the Irish people back their dignity.

A group from the 1960s and 1970s called The Moody Blues had an interesting album called "To Our Children's Children's Children". As a legislator in the Dáil part of my legacy will not be that I did not stand up and oppose what the Government proposes to do in the coming 15 to 20 years to our children's children's children, which is to pass on an immoral debt which is no moral responsibility to the children who live here today and those who will be born tomorrow and in years to come. I will not have anything of it. I am delighted to be able to state that at least I will be on record, in ten or 15 years time when the Government sinks this country and its children, as having nothing to do with it.

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