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

The clearing house group and its unprecedented relationship to Government and top civil servants, as described by the Taoiseach, begins to look like Ireland's dirty little secret when taken together with our extremely low corporation tax and the Taoiseach's unwillingness even to look at the issue of financial transaction tax. Is it not amazing that although the Taoiseach slavishly submits to every dictate for austerity made by the troika, when it comes to hitting public sector workers and pensioners, privatising public services, attacking low and middle income people and the vulnerable in our society, the one line he draws and stands against the troika is on the financial transaction tax and corporation tax? These are taxes that would hit the speculators and financiers, the very people who caused the crisis. However, the Taoiseach draws the line there and protects them. It seems we have discovered the reason.

Essentially, these are the speculators who caused the crisis and they have been given unprecedented access to the Taoiseach, the Government and top civil servants. They are writing the script for the Taoiseach - in some cases, as we have discovered, literally word for word - when it comes to his policy on these matters.

How is it possible that these people can have seven or eight meetings with the Taoiseach-----

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