Seanad debates
Wednesday, 24 March 2004
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2004: Committee and Remaining Stages.
1:00 pm
Brendan Ryan (Labour)
On a separate question, is there empirical evidence that these provisions are needed, either on the experience of other countries in the past or the experience of the EU, when East and West Germany united and suddenly 20 million impoverished East German became citizens of the European Union? Is there evidence that the so-called "benefit tourism" has taken place, apart from the hysteria reported in The Daily Mail and its equivalent in this country?
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