Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It seems we have hit on a sensitive issue because the analysis is unambiguous. Of course there are always errors in analysis but the ESRI analysis is the best we have. I discussed it with them this morning on the telephone. It is a solid analysis which states unambiguously that this Government in budget 2014 is asking the poorest people in the country to take the greatest share of the correction. That is a fact and it is a disgrace.

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