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

The other alternative is that the young in their tens of thousands should spread their wings on every tide to far flung places across the earth. It is not so much a case of exporting them like cattle, as de Valera said - which was due to his own obscurantist economic policies - as of exporting our youth by the plane load like sophisticated human computer chips carrying with them huge knowledge, talent, education and social investment.

Another shameful epoch in the failure of Irish capitalism.

The Government is intent on making the working class pay for the crisis of its system. There was and is an alternative - wealth taxes, other taxes and significant investment in job creation. This is the socialist alternative that we fight for and for which people should mobilise and organise in order to change the policy of this odious Government.

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