Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Does the Taoiseach accept that, in reality, social partnership is now another flag of convenience to curb workers' wage demands? In the context of the partnership talks, while private capitalists are allowed by the Government's policies to gorge themselves obscenely with speculative profits and tax breaks as crucial public services such as health and education go short, does the Taoiseach believe that the 18 so-called investors, who set up a speculator's company in the Caribbean to scam €309,000 per year legally from the tax fund in this State deserve to be called partners, or would the term "parasites" come more readily to mind? The Taoiseach has facilitated them. I read in yesterday's Irish Examiner that after——

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