Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Two or three of them mustered the courage to come in not to defend the reaction measures but to mutter some words about an internship which they thought they might be safe in doing. Otherwise they were not seen. They should have the opportunity on Report Stage to explain why workers will be forced to work until they are almost 70 while they are bailing out the European bankers and speculators. Come in and do that.

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