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Address of your local TD: firstname.lastname@oireachtas.ie, e.g tom.barry@oireachtas.ie.
Your address
Date
Dear xxxx;
On November 26th and
27th 2013 the Technical Group will propose the following Motion in
the Dáil chamber:
That Dáil Eireann calls on the
Government to immediately lobby the ECB for a one-off exemption from the
monetary financing to allow the Central Bank of Ireland destroy the €25bn in
sovereign bonds issued in February of this year in lieu of the remaining
Promissory Notes, plus the €3.06bn bond also being held by Central Bank of
Ireland, payment for the 2012 Promissory Note; also, to further lobby the ECB
that all interest payments currently being made on those bonds should end and
that all Promissory Notes-related debt be cancelled in its entirety.
I support that motion. The root
cause of the banking crisis in Ireland was the launch in 1999 of an incomplete
currency, the euro. From the outset it was structurally flawed, a fatal lack of
the kind of central controls necessary for any currency, new or old. There was
no proper foresight of the damage it would cause, no proper oversight as that
damage was done, no Europe-wide structures in place to then limit that damage when
it began to manifest itself.
The total amount so far that we
have put towards bailing out our banks is €69.7bn; the most odious element of
that debt is the €31bn issued to Anglo Irish Bank and INBS through the year
2010, at which stage the EU and the ECB were forcefully involved. Those
billions were printed to save the Eurozone, to save its financial institutions,
to save the euro itself. It should NOT fall then on the Irish people to have to
pay that €31bn but that is what is currently planned, that for the next 40
years we will pay those billions (plus interest), debt-slaves for generations to
the EU and to the ECB.
According to Taoiseach Enda Kenny
and Finance Minister Michael Noonan, according also to Central Bank Governor Patrick
Honahan, Ireland has never asked for bank-debt write-down; I believe we should.
I am asking you now to please support this Motion.
Regards,
(Your name)
