Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)

Certainly, in last year's budget there was a very different approach taken. It was a giveaway budget to buy people's votes. This year, the Government has made very different choices. Let us be clear about those choices. The Taoiseach referenced child poverty. We in Labour put forward last week a children's budget; a costed set of proposals that would have made meaningful steps to tackling the scourge of child poverty and child homelessness. In the Ministers' budget speeches, there was no reference to homelessness.

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