Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)

Effectively, the Government is expanding the working poor. The working poor is becoming the fastest growing sector in society and in the economy. The Government has no moral mandate to do what it is doing. It is disgraceful. I do not know how the Ministers of State can sit there and try to justify it.

I look to Deputy Gogarty, who has a conscience. He should be guided by his conscience.

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