Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

-----that we did not need tax cuts for the wealthiest. When the fiscal rules were there, every euro cut in taxes for the wealthiest in society was €4 that could have been put into capital investment, but they chose the wrong policies. We still have options and space. Instead of abolishing the USC, which Fine Gael proposed - a policy the Labour Party has a version of and Fianna Fáil have a 90% version of - we should be investing in capital infrastructure. We should be investing in our country. Of course we need the fiscal rules changed, but the big conversation we need to have in the House is whether we should sell AIB at all. That conversation is not happening. I hope people will agree with my amendment on behalf of Sinn Féin and that the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach scrutinises this area as we would if the sale was anything else bar a bank.

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