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

I am sure the Chief Whip is no historian, but he could tell his colleagues in the Labour Party that James Connolly's view on socialism was to elevate the welfare of working people and the poor and not to enrich bankers and bondholders at their expense, which is what this Government has done for the past four and a half years.

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