Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Tánaiste feels it is fit and proper to ask those many thousands of households across the State to pay additional tax on their bale of briquettes, or their bag of coal. The Tánaiste feels it is proper to ask families, whom I have met the length and breadth of this State, struggling to make ends meet, to pay an extra €1.20 on a bag of coal. Over the course of a year, if they burnt only one bag a week that would be approximately an extra €60. The Tánaiste may be oblivious to the fact that people are struggling because the commitments his party made before entering Government have not materialised. It has introduced every single one of the cuts it said Fine Gael would implement, and every tax hike it promised to protect against.

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