Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Deputy O'Sullivan is absolutely right. There has always been a poverty-proofing of the budget. This used to be done by the Combat Poverty Agency which the Government abolished last year and we were told it would be done instead by the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Has this document been laid before the House? It is a document related to the budget. Deputy O'Sullivan is correct that it is a statutory obligation-----

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