Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent)

I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and wish her well after her week long sojourn. I look forward to travelling to the east coast with her next week or the week after. This is an excellent motion and it cuts to the nub of the matter. The motion "condemns the Government for introducing a series of budgetary measures that discriminate against those who can least afford it and particularly those in rural Ireland". I could not say it better myself.

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