Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail)

To call for a reduction in social welfare at this time would be wrong, particularly when we see bread lines and the like. It is stark in the extreme. Happily, IBEC does not dictate social welfare policy for the Government. I express the hope the Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Hanafin, and her Cabinet colleagues will take the appropriate decisions next Tuesday in looking after the most vulnerable in our society, those less well off, those unemployed and those most needy, while at the same time ensuring that those of us who can, pay a little more. I am certainly more than prepared to pay for that.