Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not know what the Minister, Deputy Howlin, has against young people in asking them to emigrate. I do not know what he has against expectant mothers. Especially, I do not what he has against the elderly, where he is hitting their medical cards, hitting their free telephone allowance and hitting them everywhere it hurts. They will be afraid in their homes tonight. They will be losing their alarm that they need in case of an emergency to ring a family member and 35,000 of them will be losing their medical cards as a result of this budget.

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