Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

It is not agreed. I am opposed to taking the Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judges' Remuneration) Bill 2011 today. Their lordships' fat salaries should indeed be taken down sharply but we can leave it until tomorrow. I want the Taoiseach to change his proposal. After seven weeks of the Dáil being away and six months of the Government, the Taoiseach should have a state of the nation review and explain and have a discussion on why acceptance of EU-IMF austerity is having such catastrophic consequences for our people, particularly the relentless rise in mass unemployment and-----

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