The increase in the drugs assistance threshold from €70 to €78 is really mean. If one is admitted to hospital, one must pay an extra €45 per night for the first ten nights. That is a great deal of money to someone on social welfare. It is really intolerable. This is meanness because these people are defenceless and these measures will not even produce a significant amount of money. It looks like a kind of sadism and it will backfire on the Government.