Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I express the solidarity of the ordinary people with the traumatised and suffering people of Japan. I earnestly hope that a worse nuclear disaster does not materialise and quietly salute the wisdom of our people, whose campaign in the 1970s ensured that we do not have to contend with the generation of power by nuclear fission.

Only six short Hibernian nights and days have passed since the formation of this Government and it is already guilty of monumentally betraying its promise of honesty to the people.

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