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

How can the Minister say, with a straight face, that he is doing anything other than putting a gun to the head of public sector workers? That gun is called FEMPI. The Minister has really outlined it. There is a series of pieces of legislation that have absolutely no justification any longer because there is no financial emergency. The financial emergency is over and the Government is never short of throwing around figures on the economic growth rates. How can the Minister say he is doing anything other than bullying all -----

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