Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is nothing to be proud of when one in nine children lives in poverty. It is an enormous shame that the tradition of the Labour Party has been frittered away by a succession of leaders and career politicians who consistently put the spoils of office before their responsibility to build a mass alternative to change society. That was the ideal of Connolly and Larkin, to build a mass movement to change society.

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