Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste does not realise the severity and consequences of what was in the CSO report. It stated that 140,000 children, one in eight, were without food and heat in 2013. The Tánaiste has agreed to a debate. When will the Government make time available to debate the findings of the CSO report? We need the debate not at some distant future time but now.

My second point is about the manner in which the Government is ignoring rural towns.

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