Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Deputy Boyd Barrett has a radical shift of policy every week. His radical shift of policy in sending the Europeans and the IMF would cause a catastrophe in the economy of this country. The position is that the Government has set out to protect the welfare of the elderly. In European terms we have the lowest at-risk population of elderly people of most of the countries in Europe because of the in-built protection in terms of the old age State pension and the other facilities that are made available to them.

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