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

In our budget submission, we proposed that the effective rates relating to these people should be increased and that hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of euro could be captured as a result. There are alternatives but the Minister just does not accept that they exist. He is of the view that it is more acceptable to hit women who are bringing up children and we believe he is wrong.

See this speech in context