Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I can tell the Ceann Comhairle it has not been circulated. The social welfare Bill is being guillotined this evening but the document on the impact of the budgetary measures on poor people seems to me to be a document which the House needs to have before the debate on the social welfare Bill concludes. As the Ceann Comhairle has acknowledged, it has not been circulated. Where is it; when will we have it? Has it been laid before the House or will it be laid before the House? Is it the case, as Deputy O'Sullivan has rightly identified, that the Government has not given a second thought to poor people in this country when preparing this budget?

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