Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the spending side, one of the Minister's main points today was the increase of €3 in the old age pension and the partial restoration of the Christmas bonus. I do not believe the Minister is naive enough to think pensioners will be fooled by what he has announced here today because they remember well what the Government has done to them in recent years.

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