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

It is business as usual. This is the same type of patronage and cronyism I have seen going on in Irish politics by the right wing political parties in the State for 40 years. What the Government is doing now is what Mr. Haughey and the rest of them and other Governments did over the past 40 years, yet it is three and a half years into office and it is now promising that from 1 November this business will be cleaned up. Can anybody believe there is any credibility attaching to that?

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