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

The Minister should be burning with shame today as a result of her attacks on the elderly, young pregnant women and young people. It is all the more shameful that she does it on the 100th anniversary of the fight by working class men and women against the abuse of workers young and old. The Government has lined up with the very type of speculator responsible for this tragedy and the Minister comes across with these pathetic schemes-----

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