Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

These are the same people we expect to help those with disabilities. They are suffering cuts as well. It is a shameful budget. There are tax exiles, tax fugitives and other tax dodgers, and in addition we have people in this country who made large sums of money but are not paying their taxes. There are people in banks that we now control and they are unfortunate enough to have to survive on €500,000 a year. My heart bleeds for them.

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