Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

-----in getting privileged information to command a massively lucrative licence. In view of that, does the Tánaiste think he can, with any credibility, threaten the ordinary decent people who form the backbone of this country to drag them before the District Courts, the very people who paid their taxes for decades while the elites salted theirs away in Ansbacher and other offshore accounts? The Tánaiste must understand the anger that is out there, but he does not. Those who crashed our economy are swanning around the world on pensions of €150,000.

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