Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)

Yesterday, the High Court gave leave to an individual to challenge the implementation of the household tax. In the Government's haste to obey the diktats of the so-called European partners in paying unsecured and unguaranteed bondholders and picking the pockets of hard-pressed citizens through the implementation of unjust and unfair taxes, it forgot to translate the legislation into our national language. In light of the High Court ruling, coupled with the fact that an overwhelming number of people, myself included, have chosen not to register or pay this unjust tax-----

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