Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The year 1913 was the year of the Lock-out and 2013 will be the year of the great kick out. That is what the Government is doing - putting people out of their homes - and it should be ashamed. I read an article in a newspaper today which detailed how a couple were locked into their home in Dublin, near the Minister's house. A bunch of heavies boarded up the house with galvanised steel while they were inside with a small child. What next, Minister? Is there no new low to which the Labour Party will sink? The party has now become not the mud guard but the mud flap and the mud is sticking. The situation is appalling. The Minister can wax lyrical-----

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