Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

I did not. What I said was, I outlined what TASC, the Think-tank for Action on Social Change, said in its publication today. That is not rattling off figures. It basically said that the short-term, once-off cost-of-living packages that we introduced had a very significant impact in helping people to deal with what has been the worst inflationary spiral since the 1970s, which we had after Covid and as a result of the energy crisis resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Those things did happen and there was an inflationary spiral, which we are still experiencing. The Government interventions were probably the most significant across Europe in terms of scale and impact-----

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