Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The weekend's protests were not the result of communication problems; they were really an elemental outburst of rage, not only against water charges but also against six years of unfairness, stealth taxes and cuts. Much of the anger is centred on the cumulative impact not only of direct taxation but also of indirect taxation and charges. If the Government is listening to what the people expressed on the streets at the weekend, as it says it is, will it do something about the cumulative impact of all the measures that drove so many people onto the streets?

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