Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

That is dishonesty. On social welfare cuts, the programme for Government - not the Labour Party - indicates social welfare rates will be maintained.

On the pensions issue, it is not a fallacy. The reality is that pensioners, men and women who slaved all their lives and are now on modest pensions, are having this burden placed on their shoulders, as the Tara Mines workers outside the gates yesterday showed us in black and white. They face a €1,000 levy per year.

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