Touching on the taxation and certain other matters (international mutual assistance) Bill, I was disappointed and depressed when I read on the front page of one of today's newspapers that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, has more or less shown he is siding with the strong and, insensitively, is abandoning the weak.

The Deputy knows that is not in order on the Order of Business.

It is important.

Is there legislation?

There are many millions of people in Greece who are barely surviving and many are dying. To say that Greece should not seek a debt write-down is out of order and repugnant to me as a citizen of Europe. He should apologise for saying that.

Okay.

How dare he say that to another country. They never said it to us. On Sunday a very noble worthy group of people in Ballyhea will complete their fourth year of protest against unjustly placing losses of about €30 billion of a private bank on the Irish people.

I thank the Deputy.

They are correct and I will be there, as should many others. We should show solidarity against what is rapacious financial hegemony of Europe and the world.

The Deputy should raise that in some other way.