Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

What message are we sending to the people who are out of work or the lone parents who were so brutally dealt with in the recent social welfare legislation? Are we saying to them, or is the Tánaiste saying to them: too bad, things are tough, suck up the austerity, but we are okay, Jack? It strikes me that is the Tánaiste's message. His own pay doubled in the last year when he moved from the Opposition benches into his Government position.

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