Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I bet, however, that the Minister would not do it. He is a defender of the capitalist system and the rule of the 1% elite. Despite all the bluff and bluster from the Minister, many people will be smelling a rat here. It is well known that the Government intends to bring the State pension age up to 68. It is not a wild leap of the imagination to suspect that the ultimate aim of the Minister and the political establishment is to eliminate the difference between 68 and 70 and make the latter the normal retirement age. When we have that socialist republic, which we will have, we will reduce it to 65 years and below so that workers will have a decent lifestyle. That is very different from what is on offer here.

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