Seanad debates

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Programme for Government: Motion

 

4:00 pm

Photo of Eoghan HarrisEoghan Harris (Independent)

——and offers us a chance to restore that Protestant tradition, this time from Northern Ireland, to inject into the Irish body politic that sense of rectitude, common decency, value for money and private conscience, without which no reform is possible.

I am not one who believes in all of the highfaluting stuff about a new republic. Legislative reforms will not guarantee good politics. That is a platonic delusion. Aristotle stated that unless there was a change in the human heart, there could be no social change, or as I say, unless there is a change in the sense of entitlement of the middle classes who swan off to university. It is disgraceful that the Labour Party still has not introduced fees to rectify the class injustices. In its carry-on about fees it is the party of the privileged classes. It is also protecting among the privileged classes the public sector.

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