Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach is not only betraying promises he made to the families of those with disabilities and promises made by the Labour Party on child benefit; he is now betraying the promise to have a new kind of politics. Will the Taoiseach please allow a debate on the Social Welfare Bill? It will seriously affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of families in the State. He should allow us to debate whether there might be some alternatives that could lift this terrible burden off those families. Will the Taoiseach please allow that debate and discuss it with the Whips or whatever needs to be done? There are ways to find more time for this discussion. The Taoiseach should have the courage and show a commitment to his own pre-election promises to allow for that debate to take place.

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