Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is a pity that Deputy Doherty insists on spoiling by naked aggression what would otherwise be very good and valid issues that he raises. He says, for example, that this Government has done nothing in the budget for those on the dole, but we have protected the level of social welfare payments to those on jobseeker's allowance and basic social welfare payment rates.

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