David Norris (Independent)

When will we debate these issues and give a reply to people who say, for example, that we must apologise to the European Union for voting against the Lisbon treaty?

When will we hold the Government, which has poured at €7 billion into Anglo Irish Bank, accountable? Now it is considering flogging part of it off to some Australian crowd called abrekebabra or something like that. It will make money out of it but what about the Irish taxpayers? When will they reap some benefits out of the money poured into the bank?

When will we discuss the fact that business in this city and in this country is spancelled because rent reviews are only allowed upwards? People are going out of business every day because unaffordable rents are being charged. I will call for a debate on the economy every day because we will get into another situation like we did with Eircom. It was flogged off to Tony O'Reilly, Lord O'Reilly or whatever he calls himself. Lord Kilclooney, writing in The Irish Times, said we ought to rejoin sterling. The cheek of him. The UK ought to be kicked out of the European Union for going on its own and devaluing its currency to our disadvantage.