Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The options are very limited when one is in a troika agreement and our economic sovereignty was ceded by our predecessors. It is not easy to ask the people for a further contribution to bail us out, but that is what we have to do to retrieve the economic situation we inherited. I would have expected Sinn Féin to, at least, show some consistency on taxation. It is asking us to abolish a tax on this part of the island which it is imposing on the people of Northern Ireland. That is hypocrisy. It wants more taxes on work in this jurisdiction, but it does not want to broaden the tax base.

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