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

-----and with disgust by many others. He will also survive thanks to the support of the corporate media, which has refused to frame this scandal as a matter that might require resignation. They recognise the Tánaiste as a skilful and capable representative of the capitalist establishment and as a man who can play an important role for the system when he takes the reins again as Taoiseach and is charged with implementing austerity in a post Covid-19 era.

I have no confidence in Leo Varadkar on the leaks issue. He assisted a doctors' organisation, a breakaway within the health service, which opposed free GP care for children aged under six while locking out another breakaway group, more than 500 ambulance paramedics, who campaigned for trade union rights. I have no confidence in him when he wants to limit the increase in the minimum wage next year to less than 1%. Last but not least, I have no confidence in him when he blocked the Duffy Cahill report in the previous Dáil and has taken no action whatsoever to deliver a just settlement for the Debenhams workers in this one.

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