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

The Taoiseach has been in government for three and a half years. Why are the proposals he has just made, which I have not yet had the opportunity to study, being proposed for 1 November, some three and a half years after he stood and promised his democratic revolution and the cleaning up of politics?

Both Fine Gael and the Labour Party are up to their necks in the cronyism stakes, with failed or unsuccessful council candidates for the Labour Party finishing up on boards and sitting councillors finishing up on other boards.

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