Rory Smith did his work experience with Richard Boyd Barrett of
People before Profit. Here he is pictured beside Richard in his Dáil
office and in the other photo is listening to Mick Wallace (in pink)
making his budgetary submission in an otherwise empty chamber to the
minister for finance, Michael Noonan.
Part of Rory's report:
"It
was all very interesting and I got to see it all first hand. I learned a
lot about politics. Even though I'm working with the socialist party,
(based partly on what I saw yesterday) I'll probably vote for Sinn Féin
when I'm older. Today I did more filing and photocopying before lunch
except this time I was photocopying leaflets to give out at the
teachers' protest. After lunch, I went to two protests. The first was
protesting against the mistreatment of Sudanese asylum seekers by the
government. The second was the aforementioned teachers' protest
demanding equal pay for equal work where I gave out leaflets inviting
people to come to a speech Richard Boyd Barrett was giving later. There
was thousands of people there. Nobody seemed too interested in the
leaflets to be honest. I think my employer is being fair to me. The
filing can get tedious, but I don't mind it too much."
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