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

For the third time, how is it that the financiers and speculators to whom I refer can have eight meetings at the highest level with the Taoiseach and with top civil servants while the representatives of the 450,000 people who are unemployed cannot do so? Why are the representatives of hundreds of thousands of workers not invited to such meetings in order to discuss the problems those people are facing or their ideas for job creation and the protection of their incomes? It is only the bankers and speculators who gain the level of access to which I refer. Should we not just remove the Tricolour from above all State buildings and raise the Jolly Roger instead? What the Government appears to be doing-----

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