Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has taken out his big, bad wolf script again about how terrible things would be if Sinn Féin's policies were accepted. He wants us to thank him for this provision for these special people, which is not my language but his. This provision is called the special assignee relief programme. The Minister named them special, not me. This provision for these special people, who make up 0.5% of the highest income earners, is really being done for the butcher, the baker and the teacher. We need to give the tax cuts to the mega-wealthy in the State so that the people struggling down below will have a better future. They need to understand, poor créatúrs, that the reason we are cutting the tax bill of the millionaire by €111,000 is for their benefit, the teacher's benefit and the nurse's benefit.

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