Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy will peddle the political argument knowing that it is fatally flawed constitutionally and legally, having no regard for the Constitution and the decisions of the courts of the land and having no regard for anything but the narrow political advantage of trotting out names in the hope that this will accrue some support for her party. One cannot select a cohort of public sector pensioners and say, "I will remove their pensions". Will the Deputy make that commitment? We are running up to a general election in the next few months. Will she turn the Constitution and the law on its head and say that she will, regardless of the advices, withdraw those pensions from people who have this preserved pension right? I have gone as far as we can to reduce those pensions in the FEMPI legislation but as we emerge-----

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