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

When will the social welfare and pensions Bill be published and when is it scheduled for debate in the Dáil? Will the Minister clarify the Government's plan to deduct at source from the income of social welfare recipients the so-called property tax? Will the mechanics for this be provided in the social welfare and pensions Bill or will there be new legislation from her Department? As a Labour Party Minister representing a constituency with an acute unemployment problem and given the hardship that follows austerity, will she seriously stand over the robbing of hundreds of euro from social welfare recipients and people on the poverty line by way of the new so-called property tax to bail out further bondholders and bankers?

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