Margaret Cox (Fianna Fail)

It annoys me when I hear the claim that the women of Ireland were paid off by thirty pieces of silver in the child benefit increase paid to them before the last election. How stupid does the Opposition think we are? Do they think people sell their souls or their votes for 30 pieces of silver or whatever back payment they receive? That is a disgraceful indictment of the women of Ireland and I reject it as a slur on every mother. They did not sell their souls. I did not sell my soul.