Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Why did they not take into account inability to pay at a time when families were under huge pressure and the figures correlated with this? They are the two key issues about which people want to know.

Would it not be appropriate to at least give some social dividend in view of the deal on the promissory notes to address a generation who are finding it very difficult in middle Ireland, particularly in Dublin, as the Minister's backbenchers are saying, as are Fine Gael backbenchers, daily on radio and to their constituents?

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