Not agreed.

I give a warm welcome to the yellow bellies. Fáilte isteach, ladies. For all of the Taoiseach's big talk about phasing out the carer's allowance means test over five years, we got the truth of his position in last week's budget. Instead of allocating the €133 million that would be required for this phase-out, only €10 million was allocated for next year. At this rate, it would take 30 years to remove the means test under a Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil Government. He gave his word to carers to abolish the means test. How c…

There is no pressure on the companies.

Workers are worse off today because of the Government’s budget. They are in shock and disbelief. What the Government delivered yesterday abandons and betrays working people to look after those at the top. The Taoiseach says the Government's budget was about protecting the economy, but it has pulled the rug from under the very people who are the engine of that economy. They are the people who get up early in the morning, put in hard shifts every day and who, under incredible pressure from the cost of living, keep th…

When do they get their fair share? The Government is not giving it in its budget. Does the Taoiseach even recognise the hurt and anger that working people are feeling today? Why did the Government deliberately choose to deliver a budget that leaves them worse off?

Ní sé sin fíor.

Do not rise to that. Do not rise to it.

Evasion.

That is pathetic.

He is not answering the question.

Whatever about me borrowing the phrase from Fine Gael about those who get up early, which was well spotted, they have clearly forgotten about them as well. The more astonishing thing is that Fianna Fáil hook, line and sinker, all like nodding wee dogs, is going along with the Fine Gael agenda.

Incredible. Who would have thought, but there you go. I will tell the Taoiseach what workers want. They do not want to listen to his bluster. They want to be able to pay their bills. They want to be able to feed their children. They want to be able to run their homes. Erika wants to have a second child, but that is not on the cards. Erika and her family do not want to be forced out of Ireland, like so many others, to try to have a chance and an opportunity in their lives. The Government promised a lot at the genera…

The Taoiseach told me only a few short weeks ago that, "We will do what we can on taxation to alleviate the pressure on people." No one took that to mean landlords and developers.

We thought he meant working people.

We thought he meant people who generate all of these billions of euro in surpluses.

Can the Taoiseach explain again to the working people of Ireland how he arrived at the decision-----

-----to spend €9.4 billion and leave them worse off?

Explain that, Taoiseach.

A Cheann Comhairle, in fairness, he never answers anyway.

Jesus.