Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Does the Minister consider, when ordinary householders are being hammered with a grossly unjust household charge, when council tenants in my constituency and many other constituencies are living in dilapidated and substandard council homes and cannot get maintenance work done, it is wrong that a tax relief such as this for people with mansions to do maintenance on their homes is being provided by the State? Is it not indicative when even the IMF, which was the purveyor of so much of the austerity being inflicted upon the people of this country, questions the fairness of the way in which the austerity measures are being disproportionately imposed on the least well off and suggests they should be imposed more fairly?

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