Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No decisions have yet been made on the rates or on the timelines. That may yet be a decision to be made by the next Government, if we have a new Government by then. If we do not, then obviously this continuing Government will have to make that decision, and it will make it well before mid-June and will give people plenty of time for that.

It is a great thing that people provide food banks and hand out food parcels, and this Government actually funds food banks and we have done that for a very long time. What we do not do is post on Facebook pictures of our Ministers visiting them and handing out food to the poor. What the Deputy should do in Northern Ireland, and she is the leader of Sinn Féin in all of Ireland, is make sure the Northern Ireland Executive matches what we are doing.

Again, we saw the two faces of Sinn Féin when it came to the business grants. The Deputy is correct that it is doing more for business than for the unemployed in the North. When it comes to business grants it is because Sinn Féin is in government but when it comes to its failure to look after those who lost their jobs, as we have, it is somebody else's fault.

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