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

In our alternative budget, which is a balanced budget, Sinn Féin provides for the funding to reverse the 2012 changes, which so viciously discriminate against women. The Government could have made that choice too but it refused. It chose not to do right by the women affected. Doling out tea and sympathy does not cut it. Fine Gael is in government to bring forward solutions and resolutions. Notwithstanding strategies on women, the long-term view and the Tánaiste's personal views on gender discrimination, I want to know what she is going to do in the here and now to reverse the changes introduced in 2012.

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