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

Does the Minister not actually mean that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, has assisted in what is effectively a coup d'état in Greece? There is a deliberate attempt by Chancellor Angela Merkel and the troika to split the Greek Government in order to ram more unconscionable austerity down the throats of people who are on their knees. Does the fact that there is going to be a general strike tomorrow not prove that Tsipras's Government, in its shameful capitulation, does not enjoy the support of the Greek people? They are on the streets yet again tomorrow because they cannot take it.

Why has our Government sided with the euro bullies against the wishes and needs of the Greek people, instead of standing up for a Europe of democracy and solidarity? The European project as a notion of solidarity and co-operation is dead in the water. It has exposed itself now as a bullying, corporate, bank-dominated austerity juggernaut that cares nothing for democracy.

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