Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not think that is a fair characterisation. There has been a very strong and meaningful response from the Government to help people with the rising cost of living. There was the auto-double payment of social welfare and pensions; a double payment of child benefit; a €400 fuel allowance; a €500 working family payment; €500 for people with disabilities, blind people and those on the invalidity pension; €200 for those on the living alone allowance; €500 to carers; a Christmas bonus; a €12 increase in weekly payments that kicked in recently; the largest increase in weekly payments-----

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