Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

This is a serious issue and the Tánaiste knows it. People are reeling with shock; lone parents, low income families and the elderly are reeling from the attacks meted out in this Bill. The very least they deserve is that the full implications of the attacks on their living standings are explained, particularly the Government's commitment to labour activation measures designed to get people back to work, when it is absolutely clear that, particularly for lone parents, these measures are a direct disincentive to work.

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