Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Government party Members are ordinary people the same as I am and I ask that they take account of employees' household costs. If the Government during the next six, 12 or 18 months could find ways to reduce the costs and burdens on families, that would be another way to assist families to balance their budgets. A great deal of extra taxes and burdens have been imposed on families and if, through one method or another, they could be reduced, that would be another way to increase the families' household incomes. The Government has to examine such issues to try to assist struggling families in particular.

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