Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

I support Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh. The introduction of these savage cuts affecting the most vulnerable has been done in a mendacious and underhand fashion. The very least the so-called Minister for Social Protection can do is to come into the Dáil to defend these cowardly cuts and explain the rationale of the Labour Party in now finding these reductions, which hit the old and the poor, acceptable when it would have considered them the worst evil that could be inflicted a few months ago.

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