Noel Ahern (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)

Those are enormous benefits for the low paid and those most in need. The Senator should look at them and recognise their significance. That is the direction. I hope that, through stamp duty exemption and mortgage relief, the Government can continue to assist the middle classes. However, the main emphasis is on lower paid people – the attempt to get them off local authority lists and to allow them to do their own thing by moving into the private market.