Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It takes some brass neck for Sinn Féin to complain about basic rates of social welfare in this State. Can it be true that the basic rate of social welfare payment in the part of the island in which Sinn Féin is in government is €87 per week? Is that true? Sinn Féin Members are complaining because this Government has protected the basic rates of social welfare in this country.

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