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

-----which would otherwise go into infrastructure to create jobs and homes and to overcome the problems bedevilling working class people in the North?

Finally, what does the Taoiseach say to the tens of thousands of public and private sector workers in the North who are due to go on strike and demonstrate across the North on 13 March in opposition to these policies? Does he stand in solidarity with their legitimate and just aspirations to defend jobs and services, or does he stand instead with the Tories?

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