Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Despite all that was said, any observation by any unbiased person would see the best possible deal for this country was achieved last week. However, it is only one step in the path of recovery. I agree with the Deputy that there must be a social dividend from the incremental progress we are making because, in truth, the people have taken an enormous burden and it is to them the vast bulk of the credit for the steady progress on the road to recovery we have achieved is due.

On the point raised by the Deputy on the property tax, as he knows it was part of the commitments solemnly signed into by the predecessor Government of which he was part and to be delivered. The detail of the structure of that will be discussed in minute details when the legislative provisions are brought to the House in the coming weeks.

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