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

This is a pathetic bit of bluster. The reality is that young people are being driven out of this country at a rate of 50,000 or 60,000 a year by the Government's failure to bring in real measures and real investment, such as a wealth tax which would yield €1 billion or €2 billion to invest in real jobs, as opposed to the Mickey Mouse stuff the Government is doing as it slavishly adheres to the troika programme of sending billions to it every year instead of putting it into investment.

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