Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have doubled those payments from approximately €630 to €1,239, if you take the €200 electricity rebate into account. What we have been doing to try to help people has been very progressive. I accept that, as the Deputy has said, we cannot cushion the entire blow to the public but we will do everything we can, right across the board. In the package announced a month ago, we reduced the cost of public transport-----

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