Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

This section deals with pensions. In a response to me earlier the Minister said I was trying to ensure pensioners would be given priority over low paid workers. That is not the position. There is no question of wanting pensioners to have priority over anybody else. The issue is pensioners receiving their entitlements. Pensions are owned by pensioners and are, in fact, private property.