Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

However, what the Labour Party and Fine Gael have done instead is to knock whole swathes of people off the welfare rolls entirely, by disqualifying people on dodgy grounds with regard to applications for disability allowance and by refusing to bring people on to invalidity pension from illness benefit. At my clinic every Monday morning in Kells and every Friday morning in Duleek, I hear of refusals of payment of invalidity payments. Before this Government took office, I did not hear such complaints as they never came across my desk.