Dáil
‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Child Benefit Scheme. Food Subsidy Losses
Summary
Dr. McCarthy asked what support would offset the loss of food subsidies for poor families; the Chair stopped him as the question moved beyond the child benefit scheme.
Have the Government any plans to alleviate the suffering among underprivileged families who probably from April next — again described in that infamous document — will lose the other 50 per cent of food subsidies? As we know, last year there was a loss of a 50 per cent subsidy on bread when the Government saved £20.4 million at the expense of the poor people and, as a consequence of the saving of the 50 per cent subsidy in milk and butter, they saved £44 million, again at the expense of the poor, decent, innocent families living on a meagre income.
