Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The previous Government's strategy, which it pushed through this House, of cutting the minimum wage was the wrong one. Our strategy is not to have a low wage economy, to rush to the bottom and to think we can create jobs by pushing down people's basic wage. In the most difficult of economic times, we undid the damaging economic decision the previous Government took.

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