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

-----but this will be merely a sticking plaster if the more serious policy mistake of cutting housing benefit and rent supplement is not reversed. Unfortunately, we have heard nothing from the Government to suggest it understands this. There is growing evidence that the combination of neglect and targeted cutbacks is allowing the scourge of drugs to spread in more and more communities. This is the first Government in three decades not to have a Minister assigned to either community development or combating drugs.

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