Shane Ross (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I rise to speak on this Bill almost I feel for the second time. I am aware of the need for, and the reasons why, the Minister has introduced this Bill, in order to relieve worthy causes of the property tax. While everybody in the House supports what he is doing for the disabled, for charities and others, and for homes damaged by pyrite, the main clauses of the Bill still stand indicted by most Members, including those who sit behind him. One of the extraordinary exercises in listening to the debate on this Bill has been the political contortions of Fine Gael which managed to produce an enormous number of speakers, all of whom seemed to be vehemently against the tax and then walked through the lobbies in favour of it. That is a new democratic experience here.

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