Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I would like to address some criticism that has been levelled at the Government about its actions in this area. It is the height of hypocrisy for the Opposition to blame the Government for allegedly over heating the property market when it was Fine Gael that did its damnedest to destabilise that market through its half-baked, ill-conceived proposals to reform stamp duty.

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