Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

The Government has set 31 March as a date to scare people for registration for these taxes. The campaign against these taxes is saying to the people that we should arrive at 17 March with the bulk of households refusing to register and pay and boycotting these iniquitous new taxes. That will then create a situation where this Government has to think. We will hold the line with a massive and powerful campaign to force a change of policy, to stop the crazed bailouts and payments to the bondholders, to stop the crazed promissory note situation, to change the austerity policy and to bring about a policy of investment, job creation and reinstatement and reinstitution of our society.

Deputy Stagg is wrong.

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