Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Everyone has their own part to play in this. No part is too great or too small. No one is too old or too young. People will see that the Government has again failed to play its part in this budget. Yes, some people have been given back some of their own hard-earned money. We see people who have benefited at the cost of people who have not, but too much of people’s money continues to be squandered. Too much of people's hard-earned money continues to be wasted. Too much has been spent on layers and layers of bureaucracy. Too much has been spent without ever measuring the outcomes or evaluating where people's hard-earned money goes. Week after week, when Ministers and spokespersons week stand up in this Dáil their excuse for everything is that we have allocated this or allocated that without ever measuring those allocations. For example, does the money allocated for disability get to the children with disabilities, to the parents of children with disabilities, to the carers who are caring, or to the people breaking their backs trying to keep this country going? It does not, and the reason it does not is that this Government does not care. I know that this Government wants to continue with business as usual. As everybody can see here today, the fact is that the longer this Government is in power, the worse things are getting for people and their families.

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