Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

Does the Taoiseach not find it extraordinary that what is essentially an arm of the Government is an institutionalised conduit for the world's financiers and financial speculators to have a decisive influence on Government policy in respect of crucial issues - the taxing of super wealth, financial speculation, etc. - which could have an effect on their profits? Whereas lobbying is part of the establishment and the capitalist political process, that to which I refer involves far more than lobbying. The Taoiseach referred to four working groups-----

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