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

We did not support treaties that tied us to mad economic policies and which had crippled the level of capital investment. It is important to remind people of this.

On the specific issue of AIB, it is not just that it is the wrong time to sell it off. It should never be sold off. We should use it as a public bank to invest in infrastructure and the strategically important areas of the economy which are suffering from chronic under-investment.

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