Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Government has made decisions as I outlined. In the latest adjustment to the memorandum of understanding with the troika, we have stated that a property tax will be announced in December's budget. That is the firm Government commitment and we are not moving from that. If the Deputy believes he has a convincing way of influencing me to move from that by putting up "gentle" tax increases-----

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