Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)

I would be happy to itemise any amount of deficiencies yielded by the budget, not least of which is the lack of an increase in the living alone allowance, which affects more older people because they comprise a high percentage of its recipients.

The Minister stated that it is a question of choices. Would he accept the choice he has made, which is the choice the Government has consistently made in the past ten years or more, has been to look after those who are financially comfortable and to abandon those in low-income categories? This is the Minister's record and is the evidence from successive budgets in which the Minister has been involved since entering the House.

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