Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

The reality is that the Government will bludgeon the procedures, as they are, through, because they have a majority. We object to rushing the Social Welfare Bill through the Dáil. Many of the changes are only coming to light now. For example, I understand that there is a change to family income supplement, FIS, to the effect that if one's partner or spouse is a carer, one will lose €120 a week. There is another change which effectively increases the tax on small farmers to 85%.

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