Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----to move to a household charge for television purposes and people with a free television licence will continue to have a free payment of the new charge. There is absolutely no diminution in this.

With regard to what the Government has done in the social protection budget, the Government has done €1.7 billion less than what Fianna Fáil undertook to do when it was in government. The figures are in its four-year plan.

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