Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy clearly has a difficulty in accepting the work that has been done by the ESRI or the actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund, which shows that women get the best value. The Deputy's question asked about an analysis regarding social welfare. I am telling her what the reports are showing. She needs to study them. They are not my reports, they are independent reports.

I take issue with the Deputy on this point. In January I was very happy on behalf of the Labour Party and on behalf of Fine Gael in this Government to be able to increase child benefit by €5 a month per child. I do not know if she has taken that into account in her calculations.

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