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I only wanted to ask the Tanaiste if he now officially endorses cronyism and patronage in Irish politics.

— Joe Higgins

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This is a challenge to the entire trade union movement in Ireland - a declaration of war on the wages and working conditions of all workers.

Babies also have a civil right not to be kissed by every passing politician.

It is outrageous that [the ESB] is oppressing a powerless citizen in this way.

It is like sending a bunch of marauding foxes that had raided a henhouse back to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to their previous victims.

Superfluous and should be abolished.

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