Dáil debates

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

European Council: Statements

 

5:35 pm

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

They all keep interrupting because they do not like being criticised. Consider the gross levels of inequality that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have presided over and Europe has created, the high levels of homelessness and the housing crisis. It is these kinds of inequality and social injustice that provide the fuel for the rotten forces of the far right. Nor is there any reflection of the similarities between the policies of the so-called moderate centre and these extreme right forces. Is it not interesting? Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael support the race to the bottom in reducing corporate taxes on large corporations, which is one of the major contributory factors to global economic inequality. Who supports the same policy but Donald Trump, Farage and Theresa May? The only result of reducing taxes on corporations is an increase in the economic inequality that is giving rise to the far right. As such, we will not be taking lectures from a political establishment that is responsible in Europe and domestically for the rise of these forces. We are trying to offer a genuine, radical, progressive and anti-racist alternative to a failed establishment and a despicable far right.

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