I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. First, what Russia is doing is completely wrong and I do not think anyone would condone it. However, at the end of the day, Europe has come together and decided to give a loan, but a loan to what? How will this be paid back? In the name of God, I do not know why or how we have people who sign up to things they call loans. If you go in for a loan, you have to show credentials, have back-up and show how you will pay for something. It is a charade to call this a loan because the capacity to pay it back is not there, to be very frank about it. Looking at our own country, there is the number of people who, unfortunately. are homeless. The Irish people have opened their doors to help people from Ukraine, and rightly so. I am all for it. No one has a problem with that. However, what we are signing up to is basically Europe dictating again what it is going to do, with Ursula von der Leyen, and we have to be the nodders at the back of it. That is all I have to say. To put it simply, you cannot sign up to a loan.

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