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

Does the Taoiseach agree that a so-called Border poll would only hold a choice of hell or high water for the people of Northern Ireland - a choice of decamping from one austerity-blighted state with mass unemployment and poverty to another austerity-blighted state, south of the Border, with mass unemployment and poverty, equally?

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