Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

I wish to seek an adjournment of the Dáil under standing order 32 to raise a matter of national importance namely, the need for the Minister for Social Protection to reverse the proposed cuts in the fuel allowance and household benefits package, which will bring further financial hardship to the most vulnerable is our communities, the very people who the Labour Party promised to protect with its promise of no cuts to social welfare, the reality of which cuts were brought home to me in my constituency of Meath West when a couple who are receiving disability were contemplating cutting back on medication so they would have money for coal this winter.

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