Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I also welcome some of the other grant schemes, even the new scheme for suckler cow herds. A pound a week for a heifer is not a lot, but it is a start. Tosach maith leath na hoibre, but it is a paltry amount that is only worth around €1 per week - €60 per year. It is thruppence ha'penny; it would not give a tip to the young fellow at the mart. What can I say other than that? It is a savage budget that attacks the old, the young, the vulnerable and ordinary people. Unlike the Labour Party, Deputy Hayes's party has never looked after those people since Ernest Blythe took the shilling off them in the pension. I am glad a Labour Party Deputy has come in. Tá dhá cheann anseo - two of them have come in. I thought they had abandoned the budget-----

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