Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)

I also oppose No. 6, which is about shoving through the Social Welfare Bill as quickly as possible. All Stages are ordered for completion tomorrow. That is simply unacceptable. The Tánaiste knows that. If he were still on this side of the House he would oppose the guillotining of the Social Welfare Bill and the order that is proposed today. The Social Welfare Bill contains nearly all of the U-turns the Labour Party has made. It is the nastiest of all of the cuts we have seen in the budget.

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