Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)

The type of social picture implicit in many of the Opposition contributions is at some remove from reality, certainly as far as younger people are concerned. In my experience, young people make careful calculations before moving out of the workforce as to whether they will be better or worse off. I do not buy the notion that they leave the workforce believing they will be better off only to discover they are worse off.

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