Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

I would like to raise two issues on promised legislation, the first of which relates to social welfare legislation that arises from the announcement by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, on the household benefits package. I would like to give the Tánaiste the opportunity to correct the record of the House by stating the previous Government never intended to reduce household benefits for the recipients. It had proposed to make savings with regard to payments to the utilities but there was no proposal at any stage to reduce-----

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