Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

It appears that we are on the verge of the second Stormont election within six months. The DUP has used a boycott of Stormont to attempt to whip up sectarianism to stop its slide in the polls. The truth is that more and more people are seeing through its sectarian and Tory policies. This is the party that backed the disastrous policies of May, Johnson and Truss and failed to do anything about the cost-of-living crisis affecting working-class people in the North across the sectarian divide. Now, more than ever, we need socialists like Gerry Carroll in Stormont building an alternative to the status quo, supporting workers' struggles and putting forward a politics of class, not creed. Does the Taoiseach agree that the DUP should stop playing games with people's lives and drop this boycott? Is it not clear that a simple return to business as usual is not good enough, that the institutionalised sectarianism of Stormont has failed and that we need to be fighting for a socialist Ireland?

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