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

Does the Taoiseach think it is ironic that Deputy Adams should attack People Before Profit in the name of jobs in the North when Sinn Féin, Fine Gael, the DUP and the Tories took specific action in supporting the Stormont House Agreement which condoned and set out the plan to axe 20,000 jobs in the public sector in the North? It was an austerity deal, an almost carbon copy of the one the EU-led troika inflicted on workers here and which was such a disaster. Sinn Féin also signed an agreement which will result in more job losses because it aims to privatise assets in the North and has agreed to social welfare cuts. Incredibly, when the North is in desperate need of revenues for its public services, jobs and infrastructure, it proposes to cut the corporate tax rate to 12.5% which will result in less taxes being paid and less money available for investment in jobs.

Is that not deeply ironic? I suppose Deputy Adams is worried about the growth of People Before Profit in the North.

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