Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

Whoever made that decision should seriously reconsider it. Maybe they should think about a more directed form of action.

When someone has taken a 10% cut in a very low income, one cannot expect them to visit their GP or solicitor as frequently since none of those professional costs is coming down. In addition, train fares have risen as have education costs and accident and emergency charges. These are all matters over which the Government has control. The Government cannot cut one section without taking the rest of the economy into account and ensuring the cost of living is going down across the board, including the things over which it has control. I appeal to those, who decided as a form of industrial action to cut off the very means by which the Opposition can get at the Government, to think again.

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