Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

-----and 24 hours a day. To tackle the deep inequality in this country we must convince working-class people that they are as good as anyone else and should not accept the type of treatment the Government has meted out to them. They are not there to go to work when times are good to sustain the economy. They are worth far more than that. Their children are as good as anyone else's children but the Government does not recognise that.

There is a privileged elite in this country. This elite does not even have great amounts of money. It has access. It also has privilege, which the people I know, live with and grew up with will never have, and they are in awe of it.

James Connolly said, "The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us arise.".

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