Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Politics is about choices. There are alternatives. The choices we make say a lot about us as a society. Let us decide that we wish to protect the most vulnerable members of society. The Government should go after the people who are fraudulently claiming social welfare. It should increase taxation for those who can afford to pay it and cut child benefit for the people who do not wish to take it. Very wealthy individuals have said they do not need child benefit payments. The Government should cut it for those people but it should protect the people it is supposed to represent in this House.

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