Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The talk in Jobstown is that a message will be sent out soon for the first born in every family to be rounded up to please the Tánaiste. Is her wounded political vanity so precious that she needs this vindictive attempt to criminalise an entire working class community in this way? Hundreds of decent people in Jobstown and Tallaght who took part in a protest are in genuine fear that they will be arrested. Who will mind their children and so on?

The Tánaiste stated that she was independent and she mentioned An Cosán. Let us be honest. She was not wanted by the people getting their degrees at An Cosán. That was made perfectly clear.

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