Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Not drawing a distinction between these two things is the problem. There clearly is a difference between a home in which people live and worked hard to pay for because they needed it to live in. There are only a few ways for people to get an affordable roof over their heads in our society. There is a major difference, however, when we then consider people who own second, third, fourth, fifth, tenth or even 100th properties, and which they can rent out to generate revenue. Those are two very different things, but the Minister does not treat them differently in the property tax. That is the problem. To me that is an injustice and that is the reason we will continue to oppose a family home tax. Perhaps that is a better way to put it and that is the way we termed the tax when we campaigned on this issue. We are opposed to a family home tax and that is what his tax is.

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