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

Why does the Taoiseach not acknowledge that and address the issue in discussions on how we learn the lessons of this? I do not put the comrades of Sinn Féin in the same category with regard to doing that sort of thing. I am not suggesting they are doing that, but where the underlying problems are unemployment, youth alienation, housing, health and all the stuff that is being done to working class people in the North, is it a useful response to talk about parity of esteem between communities or about flags and emblems? I do not think it is. It fuels sectarianism. We need to fight tooth and nail against the austerity measures that are causing that level of alienation. There is not parity of esteem, but parity of lack of esteem-----

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