Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

I do not know whether the Minister remembers the comments made by her colleague, the current Minister of State, Deputy Shortall, in the wake of last year's budget. As her party's then spokesperson on social protection, she said the cuts to social welfare rates, including child benefit, were "a blatant and unjustified attack" on the weakest people in society.

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