Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

-----and can arrogantly treat the hard-pressed citizens of our capital city in this manner? The Tánaiste is acquiescing in a cringing fashion to the troika's demand for massive privatisation in our bigger public services and State agencies but does this debacle give him pause for thought before creating further debacles? What is the Labour Party going to do today to resolve this problem for the people of Dublin and guarantee them the proper public service that previous local authorities provided as long ago as Victorian days?

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