Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I should tell the House what Social Justice Ireland and other commentators have found in respect of poverty and the social and negative impact of budgets for families on the lower levels of income, whether in work or on social welfare. The biggest reductions with which the Deputy will be familiar, having sat at the Cabinet table when many of these reductions were decided, was the cut of around €16.30 per week in basic core social welfare payments, except for pensioners-----

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