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

Is it not a dangerous strategy for this country to give privileged access to a group that has clearly had a major influence on policy, for example in the case of the proposed financial transactions tax? A new tax exemption in the area of derivatives and securitisation was introduced in the recent Finance Bill. Some 21 amendments were made to last year's Finance Bill. This group gets more privileged access to the Department of the Taoiseach and the Government than other sectors of our society. Is that not an accident waiting to happen?

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