Sinn Féin protest at €1 billion handover to AIB bondholders
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Channel: Sinn Féin · 2012 · News & Politics
Dozens of protesters -- including Sinn Féin TD Dessie Ellis and Dublin City Councillors Larry O'Toole, Mícheál Mac Donncha and Anthony Connaghan -- carried placards protesting against the billion-euro handover, something which even AIB lunchtime customers going in to the branch were not aware of. TODAY'S €1billion bonanza pay-out to AIB bondholders of taxpayers' money is double the total cut to the Social Protection budget for 2012, almost double the total cut to the Health budget in 2012 and just under a third of the total adjustment the Government is set to make in next year's Budget, Sinn Féin Finance spokesperson Pearse Doherty TD said today.
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