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

Yesterday, the Taoiseach would not give the Dáil information I sought on the timetabling of the property tax legislation. According to Standing Orders, we are entitled to get that information. I got significant information in a morning newspaper that was leaked from Cabinet yesterday, which answered questions to which we could not get an answer here yesterday. Leaving aside the new vicious austerity being applied in the form of a property tax, which will be resisted and boycotted-----

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