Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

That is destroying our economy. Instead of that, why not impose higher taxes on the bankers and speculators who helped wreck this and the European economy? The Taoiseach says we cannot do that. The alibi that nobody can do it until everybody does it is an alibi for never doing it, and the Taoiseach knows that well. Somebody has to have the political courage-----

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