Dáil debates

Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016

 

4:15 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and said, "We’ll call it a democratic revolution".

Chapter 2 of the story is about the economy and regressive anti–social budgets introduced by this Government.  It looked after the wealthy and gave tax cuts to the high earners. It spoke about trickle-down economics. It took the four-year plan it inherited from the previous Government and removed all traces of fairness from it.  It took the telephone allowance from the elderly, hiked up prescription charges for people who could not afford it and cut career guidance teachers from our schools.

Chapter 3 tells a story of 405,000 people waiting to see a hospital consultant-----

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