Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)

It is a shoddy and misleading piece of work. I ask the Taoiseach to make it clear to the Dáil and the people who are viewing this session that he understands well that those who are living on welfare are not doing so by choice and, more to the point, are not living the high life. That is simply not the case. A low income is a low income. People are struggling as a direct consequence of the Government's bad policy decisions.

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