Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

As we are in the swan song days of this Dáil, does the Taoiseach agree he has no moral authority to take a cudgel to beat back the nurses in their demands for equality and for a decent wage when not once in ten years did he raise a voice or a finger to stop speculators, developers and big builders putting homes out of the reach of ordinary working people? The Taoiseach mentioned the knock-on effect of the nurses' claims.

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