Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

-----have also benefited from the decline in prices. Real purchasing power has also been protected for those people.

Nobody is saying this is easy but it is interesting that the very people who recommended cutting jobseeker's allowance, widow's pension and lone parents allowance, which is the Fine Gael Party, are now the ones who are objecting to that policy being introduced.