Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This was not inevitable; it was a choice which, as I believe the Tánaiste will agree, was bad for everybody. It hammers those who have the least and slows the full economic recovery of the country.

With the Government's third austerity budget just 12 days away, I ask the Tánaiste the following two questions. Will he commit that he will give Members of Dáil Éireann when the budget is introduce, or, at the very least, before we are asked to vote on it, an impact assessment of the proposals in terms of the socioeconomic indicators and who will be asked to carry the heaviest burden? If that analysis shows that the proposals being put to Dáil Éireann ask those who have the least to bear the heaviest burden, will he withdraw the Labour Party's support for the budget?

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