Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to talk about fairness and to have a debate on fairness. The Government issued a leaflet on fairness in budgets yesterday. Again this year, the only way it could stack up the fairness claim was to include the Fianna Fáil budgets going back to 2008 or 2009. In its leaflet, it proudly boasted about how fair the budgets were from 2009 to the present because that is the only way it can add up the sums having regard to fairness. The reality is that this Government's budgets have hit the poorest hardest and have let the rich away scot free.