Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Stretching the debt over a long period of time will not reduce it. It will, in fact, increase it. Everybody knows that if one extends a mortgage it simply means one pays more. All that the Government has achieved is to put the burden on children who have not yet been born. In contrast, at least Syriza has raised the prospect that a totally unsustainable debt, which was foisted on the people of Greece and Ireland, could be challenged in some way, something the Taoiseach and his Government have failed to do in any way whatsoever.

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