Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of winner, that's going to be the key point. Deputy Rabbitte, as was referred to by Senator D'Arcy, the issue of the 2% cut to the basic rate of income tax was announced by you at the party conference just prior to the general election in 2007 when you announced it during the leader's speech that night. Can I put it to you, that would ... I put the proposition to you that this was a tactical and deliberate decision to brand the Labour Party as a low income tax party in order to curry electoral support, and was a clear example of populist politics.