Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Government's public profession of sympathy for the Greek people and occasional abuse of the word "solidarity" in respect of them has been exposed as entirely empty rhetoric, which covered up, behind the scenes in the closed rooms in Brussels, active participation in a coup with which the Syriza Government was unfortunately complicit and which has reduced Greece not to a sovereign state but to colonial status within Europe.

Does the Minister not agree the Varoufakis interview confirms that and, as I put to the Taoiseach just two weeks ago, that it also confirms the Government’s actions were stabbing the Greek people in the chest and the Irish people in the back?

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