Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Does the Taoiseach accept that the Government has no credibility in seeking another so-called partnership agreement, the main purpose of which is to hold workers' wage increases to a minimum? Yesterday, the Department of Finance's report on tax breaks showed that the Government has been shovelling billions of euro in tax savings to speculators, developers and builders who have squeezed the economic lifeblood out of young working people trying to purchase a home through the ransom demanded by these very beneficiaries of the Government's tax schemes. This has occurred to the extent that yesterday's "Pat Kenny Show" stated the Government has created 12 billionaire speculators.

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