James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the intolerable burden being placed on lower and middle income families, which is being further exacerbated by the failure of the Government to implement its budget measure to tax or means test child benefit, resulting in the likely introduction of a flat-rate cut in this benefit, which will once again hammer those on the lowest incomes who would and should have been protected by the original proposal.

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