Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)

This 0.5% target will mean a further €6 billion in cuts and new taxes. It will mean that on top of the €8.6 billion the Government has already agreed to cut from the economy, people will have to pay for this. Yet the Taoiseach has the audacity to say that the people are mad.

I will ask the question again. What will this treaty cost to lower and middle income families, in terms of cuts in their services and in terms of their taxes?

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