Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

That at least explodes the myth that it is a broadening of the tax base. I have asked the Taoiseach many times, in regard to the Thornhill report, if working people and pensioners are to be troubled every week with new leaks about this new economic attack on them. Will the Government publish the Thornhill report and in the coming two weeks will the Taoiseach make time available in the Dáil for a debate on it and for the Minister to state precisely the Government's plans for the property tax, rather than have people subjected to these cynical leaks?

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