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

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.

We want to see measures to implement taxation justice for ordinary working people. We want an end to the policy of many years now, of huge tax concessions for big corporations and a plethora of stealth taxes on ordinary families and ordinary working people.

Delusional on a Marie Antoinette scale.