Liam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

The situation approaches crisis, but the Government is not prepared to accept that. The Minister of State should issue a public health warning to people that when they receive their SSIA cheques, they should put them against their personal borrowings rather than get carried away with the Government's idea that there is somehow a free flow and that everything is absolutely perfect. One must accept the concerns regarding personal borrowing.

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