Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael)

Is it fair that the Leader's Government is taxing the elderly? Is it fair that this Government is now placing into the tax bracket further numbers of those on low income? Will the Leader clarify that it was the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government that negotiated the medical card deal and is now to take it away? That is the reality and Senator O'Malley might take notice of it. Is it fair that Tom Parlon, who must be an embarrassment to the Progressive Democrats, has struck a great deal with the Government in the budget for the Construction Industry Federation?

Let us talk about dirty politics——