Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

This is nothing but a populist Bill with no credibility and it reflects the type of Darby O'Gill economics we have become used to from Sinn Féin. In the last budget, the Sinn Féin budget proposals were not costed by the Department of Finance, the first time in the history of the State an Opposition party has submitted proposals that were not costed. If this was a meaningful debate, we would discuss the legitimacy of property tax. It is bizarre that so-called left-wing Members of the House are opposed to the principle of property tax. They can argue about its construction and its progressiveness-----

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