Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I need more time to deal with them. The Minister, Deputy Gormley, might have got a buzz in the poll last week but there is only one poll that counts and that is the one in June. When he gets the results of that poll, he will be pole-vaulting over here to get away from that Government because they will bring the Greens down as they did with the Progressive Democrats.

Why is the Government attacking people who are working and paying tax? Yesterday's levy was unfair. It is the second pay cut this year. People can only take so much and they have now taken all they can bear, particularly those who are working.

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