Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Some of this debt will go unpaid in certain cases because workers cannot afford to pay it.

Under the Government, low pay has become a byword. Ireland is the second worst in the OECD when it comes to low pay. Under-employment is also entrenched in this society as a result of the divisive anti-social democratic values that Fine Gael and the Labour Party have pursued in government and which have intensified since the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, took over the leadership of the Labour Party.

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