Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Section 3 is the undoing of what was done a year ago, bar one week, with no debate and with the Whip used. It is very timely and coincidental that the Government Chief Whip is in the Chamber. If this debate had taken place back then, there might have been the realisation that we were on the wrong path. The Government is trying to impose on the people this toxicity while sugar sweetening it, which is wrong. This is a terrible playing of politics; it is cynical. We should be rebuilding a nation, an economy, a just society and not the unequal one that has emerged from the crazy imposition of so-called widening of tax bases on people. It is not doing that at all. Deputy Shortall showed it logically step by step. The financial modelling of this is all wrong.

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