Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are certain constraints within which we must operate.

The Government has been massively cognisant of the financial pressures on families during the past 18 months. That is why, in the context of those financial pressures, we have intervened to provide support by means of a range of measures to homeowners. In the budget we introduced last year, there was an autumn double payment, a double payment of child benefit-----

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