John Kelly (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I realise Fianna Fáil is taking every opportunity to vote against things that it supported initially, including the budget measures which, unfortunately, I did not remind them about at the time. In the budget the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, reduced the spend on social welfare by ¤500 million to ¤19.5 billion, but Fianna Fáil had signed up with the troika to reduce the spend on social welfare to ¤18.5 billion, some ¤1 billion more of a reduction. I realise it is not relevant to water services but I questioned those in Fianna Fáil about where it would take the extra money out of social welfare and they refused to answer.