Seanad debates
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Committee Stage
5:45 pm
David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
The purpose of my opening statement, which the Minister mentioned, was to remind her that when Fianna Fáil first cut the dole for younger people she opposed it. She voted against it, and she was the finance spokesperson for her party at the time. When the Minister voted against that measure that Fianna Fáil introduced, did she believe that she was voting for what she saw as a lack of ambition for young people? Did she have a perception that young people did not want to work or did she see it as unfair at the time because that was the point she made? I find it ironic that the Minister-----
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