Phil Prendergast (Labour)

This Bill is the means by which society is being divided not just into the haves and have-nots but into potential Fianna Fáil voters and those who have already decided they will punish the party at the next election. These are the people at whom Deputy Gogarty and his fellow travellers are really directing the big "f you". Having regard to the provisions of the Bill, it is parents, children, the disabled, the sick, the sick elderly, the young and the vulnerable in society who would have every right to use foul and abusive language about what is going on here, not Deputy Gogarty. He is supporting this chronic injustice. He has no entitlement to lose the rag. I call from the floor of this House for Deputy Gogarty to resign his party's Whip and to vote against the budget.