Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are saying quite openly that now is the wrong time to put such a burden on people on whom the financial pressures are enormous. The situation has got much worse with regard to unemployment and so on. Does the Taoiseach agree the pressures now facing the categories of people I have outlined are such that they are not in a position to pay this tax that is being levied upon them?

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