Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the fact that pensions will be pegged to increases as they happen. When I talk to pensioners they say they feel they are forgotten because they took cuts under the austerity measures that were taken after the bust. These are people who worked for this State all of their lives and contributed enormously to it through taxation, building our economy and getting the State to where we are today as a good place to live and work in. It is important that we recognise that contribution and ensure that if people are on a fixed income, they are helped with the increases in prices. People who are in pensions see their health costs and all that goes with that increase. If they have a car, their insurance costs and all of that also increase. It is important that we recognise that in a fruitful way.

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