Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I met a widow the other day who is on €183 when the property tax is taken out.

She does not know where she is going to get the money to pay. That is the question I asked her. She is the Minister for Social Protection. This is why I asked about people on the lowest incomes because the system conceived by Fine Gael in its NewERA document in terms of utility, regulator and full cost recovery rather than sustainable recovery is the model the Government has gone for. We did not go for that particular model.

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