Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)

Given that this Bill, as it stands, will have a material negative effect on hundreds of thousands of working poor in the State and take money from their pockets, and that we are told there is now soul searching in the Labour Party and there are new advocates in the party standing up for the working poor, I ask that we vote by means other than electronic means.

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