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

Tomorrow workers in Greece will commence a 24-hour general strike and there will be mass protests all over Greece against the shameful bullying by the troika and EU governments in attempting to shove another austerity package down the throats of the Greek people who will be protesting against the tragic capitulation of Alex Tsipras’ Government to the austerity agenda. How does the Minister respond to the allegation, made by the former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis, in the article in New Statesmanpublished in the last day or two, that Ireland was one of what he described as the major opponents of the Greek Government in seeking a debt writedown and real relief from the austerity package the troika was trying to impose?

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