Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This Government understands exactly the scale of the balance and the challenge that hundreds of thousands of people face every day. The vast majority in the House here have gone through that in their own way, and we understand the difficulties so many, in particular women, have in balancing budgets to run households, pay their bills and meet their requirements. That debate is a phantom debate, Deputy. Let us end it now.

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