Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

The measure before the House proposes to take money directly from widows, carers, handicapped people, the sick, the unemployed, and children. It will take food off their tables simply to provide cheaper drink. The cost of that will be hungry children and we will have hungry children at the expense of providing cheaper drink. No society could countenance such a measure which results in children going hungry arising from the measures in this budget. We are providing further funding -----

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