David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is worth reminding the House that it has been four years since the then Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, cut payments to lone parents. Of all the attacks on people during the austerity years that one ranked as one of the most vicious and worst cuts. At the time, I described it as slash and burn politics but I was not on my own. The Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, described it in similar terms. He very robustly opposed the Government policy at the time. He was very vociferous in this Chamber at that time but, as with many other issues, he seems to have lost his voice now.

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