Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

However, the Economic Management Council foists the dictatorial demands of the European monetary and political establishment on the people to save the financial interests of the big bondholders and financial markets and at a huge cost. I ask the Taoiseach to answer the question raised by the revelations on the part of the deputy editor of The Sunday Business Post, which are that the President of the European Central Bank dictated to a few Ministers, who then came in and dictated to Parliament to foist on the Irish people the entire burden of the European financial crisis, which is a crisis brought about by the speculators and the bondholders. Can the Taoiseach explain this? Did any Ministers revolt at the fact that a Cabinet decision to burn them to some extent at least was overturned by the four horsemen of austerity? The Taoiseach must explain this to the people.

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