Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

If the Minister had come up front immediately and said that in fact his departmental advisers or number crunchers had figured out that there are 1,650,000 households in the State which are entitled to the €100 grant, if he had said that is €1,300,000 and then told us his Department estimates that 350,000 households will refuse to pay and therefore will not be entitled to the €100, according to his rules, that would have explained the gap. Why did he not do that two hours ago so we could move on?

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