Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Will the Taoiseach accept that the cost to his Department and to the taxpayer in the matter of the tribunals has been massively increased because for eight years he and his Government have included in their herd of sacred cows, with land speculators and developers, the elite of the barrister profession as untouchables whose greed they would not curb by putting control over their fees? Some members of the legal profession added insult to injury by becoming speculators in the infamous land deal in Stillorgan——

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