Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

I do not have to tell them because it is what people do.

On the increase in the drug refund scheme threshold, when Deputy Gilmore was in office we did not have such a scheme. At that time, one paid and waited for three months to get a refund. Working families waited for much more than £100 and were being taxed at 26% at the time. The Government has removed such families from the tax net.

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