Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle.

The Government’s strategy has been to buy off one half of the population with its €100 water conservation grant - wink, wink - and then intimidate the other half with a threat of attachment orders, court proceedings and sticking its hands into their pensions, welfare and wages. Newsflash for the Taoiseach: none of that has worked.

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