Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

Members will be aware that what happens in a social welfare office is that everybody turns up together on a Monday morning. They all turn up at 8 a.m. even though the office might not open until 9 a.m. or 9.30 a.m. People want to try to get on with their lives as best they can——

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