Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

------of reducing the deficit by 2014 will be missed and will not even be met by 2016. The Taoiseach stated not another red cent would go to the banks. He stated that the bondholders would pay and then he gives them €24 billion. He stated he would reverse the cut in the minimum wage and now he states the Government needs the agreement of the EU and the IMF. He stated the Government would review the universal social charge and now they are imposing a bigger burden on those on lower and middle incomes and those on welfare. He promised to put the EU-IMF-----

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