Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This will probably be my shortest speech. When the Government gives a fiver a week to a pensioner and €2.70 a week to a young person on the dole, how can we possibly justify giving ourselves an extra €100 a week on top of all we have? Rents increased by 11% in September, yet we are spending our time here increasing wages instead of introducing rent certainty. How can people trust a Government or Parliament which behaves like this? I ask the Government to stop the pay increase and instead focus on helping those who need it.

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