Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister may claim that such people did not exist under British rule at the time of the Famine. Of course they existed, and they still exist. They are very real today. That is the Minister's legacy. There is no equality or poverty proofing of these measures. The Minister must admit that a man who shoplifted so that his children could have the bare necessities was convicted for doing so.