Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Yes, the hedge funds, big banks and major conglomerates should be taken into public ownership. They should be put under the democratic control of the majority, thus using their resources to develop society and create further wealth. That would advance solidarity and society, so we would have an entirely different situation. We would not have an Irish Government humiliating itself in order to carry out the diktats of the markets, whose system has created the crisis with which our people are saddled and from which they are currently suffering.

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