Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

It is beyond belief. This Bill is going to make no difference; it is absolute decoration. As an aside, according to the schedule, I was due to speak at 3.30 p.m. on the personal insolvency legislation, but Government speakers did not turn up. It comes back at a micro level to what is happening in Greece. The debate about Syriza and the Government is about why these big financial entities - the bondholders, the SPVs, their subcontractors or whatever one wants to call them, or the creditors - will call the shots on people's personal indebtedness.

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