Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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The point I was picking up on was that the ESRI did its analysis, and the one-off measures have created a buffer for some of our lower-income households, but the prices are locked in and are continuing to rise. With regard to those one-off measures, the €200 is spent. It can not be spent again. Social welfare rates did not increase to buffer them. If you look at it just through a point in time, there was a buffer there, but without deflation is it not the case that these households are now going to become quite poor compared to where they were last year?