Jimmy Harte (Labour)

This House should call on these people to desist from their campaign. Mr. Farage, in particular, has come into this country and is distributing leaflets that peddle untruths to every household. This is a departure we cannot accept, where a crowd of people from the UK who are anti-Irish and anti-foreign nationals in their own country want to come here and are being assisted by the usual suspects, who call themselves left wing politicians. These individuals should be asked who is going to benefit financially from a collapse or downgrade of the euro. As the sterling will not collapse, people from the UK will be able to come to Ireland to purchase two holiday homes rather than one. People must understand that certain people have a vested interest in destabilising the euro for their own financial advantage. This is all about money and these individuals are telling us to get rid of the euro while at the same time they are stocking up on sterling and dollars.

The ULA and Sinn Féin should announce they are on a different platform from Mr. Ganley, Mr. Farage and the other loonies on the right. Now we have loonies from the right and the left on the same platform. People must be made aware of who is going to benefit from destabilisation of the euro.