Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage
7:20 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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I am pressing the amendment given the inflammatory remarks from the Minister for Finance and his last disgraceful comments that we cannot ask the Department to carry out an equality impact assessment. The Minister revealed today in reply to a parliamentary question that his Department spent €17 million on one firm of solicitors under one contract but he believes that single fathers, mothers and those on disability are not worthy-----