Paul Bradford (Fine Gael)

It was about not increasing taxes and, above all, trying to ensure that the majority of people on social welfare and those on the lower end of the income spectrum can aspire to a job and a future in this country. There are political parties and politicians whose existence would finish if the poverty industry disappeared and if we could lift people out of poverty. That is what the Government is attempting to do. It is trying to bring a degree of certainty to the economic management of the country-----