Dáil
‹ Order of Business Budget impact on inequality
Summary
Róisín Shortall challenged the budget’s distributional impact, but the Ceann Comhairle ruled the question outside the Order of Business.
Now that the Department of Social Protection has completed its impact assessment of budget 2015, does the Taoiseach accept that this year's budget has benefited the bottom 20% the least extent and that it has significantly widened the gap between rich and poor, and how does he feel about that?