Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

This week the Taoiseach's Government is declaring a new economic war on the people with its new household tax. It will be a new burden on ordinary people in furtherance of the Government's ruinous austerity policy of bailing out banks and speculators. Does the Taoiseach have any idea of how angry, frustrated and outraged our people have become over the past three years as their wages, health and education services have been slashed with our society hollowed out as its resources are expropriated to pay the private gambling debts of Irish and European banks? Does he remember the anger last month of ordinary people when €700 million was given to unsecured Anglo Irish Bank bondholders from their taxes?

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