Joe Higgins first speech in the new Dáil

national | miscellaneous | news report Friday March 11, 2011 13:54 by Ronoc

Before the election of Enda Kenny as Taoiseach Joe Higgins made a great speech in the Dáil on the 9th of March 2011.

"I oppose the nomination of Deputy Enda Kenny as Taoiseach of a Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition Government. The very first sentence of the programme for Government states that a democratic revolution took place in Ireland on 25 February. The Oxford dictionary defines “revolution” as the overthrow of a government or social order in favour of a new system. That being the case, the programme presented by Deputy Kenny is a grotesque betrayal of that revolution because it proposes, almost to the letter, to continue the reactionary programme of the old order of the late and unlamented regime of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, a regime that was rightly reviled, rejected and sent to oblivion by the Irish people for its economic and political crimes. Given the day that is in it, I am surprised that the remnants of that Government did not return with their brows heavily stained with penitential ash to recognise the role it played."

Continued on link below aslo with a video available to download.

I found this speech on you tube, but it was badly recorded and the format of the video on his website, Im finding it imposible to convert into a format that youtube will accept. If anybody can get this done it would be great if you could post a link below.