Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

The taxpayer pays out and the highest claimants are in the Sinn Féin Party. We are determined to establish solidarity in the public service. We have made more strides in the past 12 months than in the history of the State. To do this in the context of people's constitutional and legal rights is very difficult. The Deputy is much more attached to the soundbite than the reality. The Government is more concerned with doing it than the rhetoric.

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