Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

They are the people who will be down €2 a week. They are the people that Government targeted because it was afraid to do what we did in previous years and what were described in The Irish Times today as brave budgets where everybody across society was hit according to what he or she could afford. In this budget specific sectors have been targeted. It thought it would get away with the changes to disabled allowances but enough people had sense to challenge it. Until now it has gotten away with the changes to fuel allowance-----