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Irish Mirror
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Pat Flanagan

Pat Flanagan column: It's time to bail out the public amid soaring energy crisis

Who would object to windfall taxes being imposed on the hundreds of millions of euro profits being raked in by energy companies at the expense of Irish consumers?

Apparently the Government, including the Green party, as they fear such a move would send out the message that Ireland is anything other than Europe’s leading neoliberal poster boy.

Still, wouldn’t it be great if the public, like the banks and big builders during the crash, got a bailout.

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