Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

They then go and take €10 per month in child benefit off the first and second child and €18 off the third and fourth child.

When pressed on breaking those promises, the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, said the other night: "Isn’t this the kind of thing you tend to do during an election campaign?" - in other words, you tend to make these kinds of promises. This basically means Labour never had any intention of keeping these promises in the first place. They knowingly deceived the people of this country. They knowingly betrayed the people of this country. Labour's way was the ultimate deception.

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