Nicky McFadden (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister. This budget is anti-family, anti-poor and anti-children. In our budget plan last Friday, we in Fine Gael specifically excluded those who could not work, namely, children, pensioners, carers, the disabled and the blind. However, Fianna Fáil and the Minister have failed to protect the most vulnerable. In the words of Fr. Seán Healy, the wonderful campaigner for CORI, this budget is "breathtakingly unjust". He tried to influence this Government. It is not long since he and Cabinet Ministers were walking arm in arm and barefoot across Inchydoney Beach-----