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

The programme for Government talks of working to make our older years better years. It is a noble sentiment but let us look at the reality on the ground. Would the Tánaiste care to comment about the fact that the largest drugs company in the entire world, which dodged $35 billion in US taxes when it relocated to Ireland in recent years, is trying to downgrade massively the pension entitlements of its Irish workforce, in other words, the very same workers who made many of the super profits for Pfizer in the first instance?

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