Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The failure of this Government to include a debt write-down of approximately €50 billion from Europe as the overriding priority underpinning all our engagements with our European counterparts is a failure that will cost the Irish taxpayer dearly. We need to get our money back from Europe because if we do not, my children, the Minister's children and our children's children will face the same catastrophic financial cost that this generation has already faced. We were led to trust in the kindness of strangers. Have we been left out on a limb to be disappointed by the strangers to kindness?

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