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

I am being interrupted because they hate the facts. It is like saying somebody who lives with five other people does not benefit from the living alone allowance. If Deputies want to look at the benefits for the squeezed middle, if they are defined as people who earn less than €37,000, they have to look at it in the round. They have to look at the social wage, as the Irish Congress of Trade Unions would describe it: the reduction in the cost of childcare, more people qualifying for the SUSI grant, the working family payment, the free school books, the double child benefit payment, the rent tax credit, and the increase in the national wage. When we take all those things into account, this is a progressive budget. Those are the facts. The analysis is there from the Department of Finance. Members are entitled to their own opinions and ideology. They are not entitled to their own facts.

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