Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would like to second what Senator Boyhan has said about carer's allowance and maternity benefit. The Minister is acting deplorably in trying to put the focus elsewhere by suggesting that everybody who is on social welfare is somehow corrupt or trying to defraud the system. It is his responsibility to make sure the system works so that people on maternity benefit get these payments and do not have to wait for a month. Equally, people on carer's allowance should get the small pittance that is due to them.

I am very pleased that Fianna Fáil has finally decided it no longer has confidence in the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan.