Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Those people are rejecting what is being done to them and that is why there is a huge revolt throughout the country against the household tax, which is the symbol of people's opposition. It is amazing that Fine Gael and Labour backbenchers - I refer, in particular, to the Labour elves in this regard - have not done their job in making the Tánaiste and his colleagues aware of the extent of the anger that exists. That is the reality.

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