Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)

I thank Deputies again for their comments but we are trampling ground that has been well trampled in long debates on Committee Stage. Amendment No. 33, proposed by the United Left Alliance Deputies, seeks to delete section 40. That section sets out how pensions are to be increased referable to the consumer price index. If that is deleted, there is no appropriate way left in the Bill to increase pensions.

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