Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The budget yesterday was the product of an exhausted Government. It lacks conviction, confidence and compassion. The impact of the Fianna Fáil-Green-Independent-supported budget has and will consign thousands of low and middle income families in this country to near penury, a serious financial hit, a serious drop in living standards and hardship and pressure they could never have imagined. It is a budget of booby traps and landmines that will go off in these families' houses economically and financially over the next 12 months.

The Minister for Finance said that his budget was sensible, rational and equitable. Yesterday the Taoiseach's salary was 13 times that of a person on the minimum wage and today it is 14 times the level of a person on the minimum wage. Does he consider that is sensible, rational and equitable?

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