Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

It was a meeting of a group of organisations representing old people. There were a number of worried looking Government backbenchers discussing promised legislation. I ask the Taoiseach to agree to withdraw the promised legislation, the nursing home support scheme Bill, which will have the effect of taxing for the first time, by way of means test, the family home and charging 85% of the income of elderly people who can no longer live in their own homes. I hope he will withdraw it.

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