David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----to have a job strategy that will get people back to work - rather than the Minister for Social Protection cutting people's welfare in terms of secondary benefits such as back-to-school grants, footwear and clothing allowances and child benefit, the Government should be trying to get people back to work; and to have a fair budget. This was not a fair budget. I point out to the Leader that we need to have a debate in the House on the election promises and election manifestos which were put before the people of the State and have been torn up since the general election by the parties in Government.