Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

——and I was a lower or middle income earner, I would be apoplectic when studying this budget. Many people who fit that demographic voted for Fianna Fáil in the last election and now they will think seriously about how they will vote the next time. I am also pleased that the Government did not put any VAT on children's clothes or footwear because, by God, if it did, we would definitely be going back to the 1980s.

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