Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

I want to concentrate on three other issues where the Government's track record must be acknowledged. First, is the reduction in income tax which means we have the lowest income tax on work in all the European Union, second is the job record, and third is consistent poverty. Some 250,000 people have been removed from consistent poverty during the past nine years, down from 310,000 to 60,000.

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