Jerry Buttimer (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

At the same time, we have a Minister for Social Protection announcing a budget with an increase to all people. People complain that the Christmas bonus is only 85%. It was gone until the Government came back. We restored the Christmas bonus. We increased the minimum wage; we did not cut it. More people are at work, some 2 million people. Someone, I think Senator Ó Clochartaigh, mentioned Apple in Cork. He should come down to my city of Cork. I will bring him down with me. He should talk to the men and women who work in Apple and they will tell him about the Apple tax rate and the jobs they are in.