Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Families, the people who get up early in the morning, are struggling. They have already told the Government that they are struggling to meet housing and childcare costs. Today nothing was provided for them, except a further increase in the cost of getting to work. How out of touch can we be? It is scandalous that the Government did not have the guts to put the latest hike before the House for a vote this evening.

All I will say is that the people affected will take the first opportunity they get to vote on this matter and pass judgment on this out-of-touch Government.

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