Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance

Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage

12:20 pm

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I appreciate that Deputies are genuinely concerned about this and are expressing their points very well and sympathetically but they are not presenting the full case. Deputies McGrath and Doherty are presenting this as a cut of €107 a week on somebody's income but they omit the fact that maternity benefit is increasing income.