David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am. The question is coming and is addressed to the Cathaoirleach. I refer to an impoverishment of the citizenry, the establishment of soup kitchens for the destitute, eviction of those in arrears of debt, rack-renting for those with the temerity to improve their properties and the recreation of the memories of hedge schools for our children.

And all this to pay for the Grasshopper's party, to which but a select and unrepresentative group was invited at the first instance. It is now proposed to reimburse the Grasshopper by charging to the great mass of the uninvited and the disenfranchised the expense of his frolickings. The grasshopper clique, it transpires, has issued the providers of the entertainment with promissory notes, which we the humble citizenry are presently to be enforced to discharge. Nor is there to be an end to the affront, as with a nonchalance unparalleled since the epoch of the Emperor Nero, the Grasshopper intends-----