22 Proinsias De Rossa asked the Minister for Social Welfare if, in regard to his speech to the recent conference of European Social Security Ministers, and his suggestion that social welfare payments were draining the Exchequer and could not be maintained indefinitely, he will outline the specific plans he has, especially in the light of commitments given in the Programme for Economic and Social Progress that social welfare recipients would be protected and their living standards maintained, and where possible, improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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22 Proinsias De Rossa asked the Minister for Social Welfare if, in regard to his speech to the recent conference of European Social Security Ministers, and his suggestion that social welfare payments were draining the Exchequer and could not be maintained indefinitely, he will outline the specific plans he has, especially in the light of commitments given in the Programme for Economic and Social Progress that social welfare recipients would be protected and their living standards maintained, and where possible, improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

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