Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Deputy Boyd Barrett should be ashamed, as a legislator, to come into the House which passes the laws of the land and in which Members have their say for and against to encourage people deliberately to break the law. Were the minority who have not yet paid the household charge to do so, the Minister for Social Protection and everyone else would find it easier to deal with sensitive cases. The Deputy who has been elected in the same way as everyone else chooses to tell people deliberately to break the law. He should be ashamed of himself. He has decided to have his national march which he seems to need as a monthly fix on 18 July. He should not assume the Dáil will rise for the summer recess on that date. He might be speaking in Molesworth Street on that day, but he might find the Dáil will sit for a further period. I would be careful about that if I were he. The memorandum of understanding and the troika agreement in respect of the country's programme require that a value tax on property be introduced.

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