Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Last year we announced about €1.1 billion in tax cuts and about €6 billion in additional public expenditure in respect of a whole range of services. Shortly before the summer recess, in the summer economic statement we will give the financial envelopes as to how much more we can spend on services and how much we can do as regards taxation. That taxation will take many forms. It is not just one form of taxation. We are committed to having a taxation package for the rental sector to make sure that more people continue to rent out their homes and that those people stay in that market, which is important, and that renters get a break as well in the budget. All of that will have to be collectively agreed by the Government over the time between now and budget time.

The Deputy's policies overall on employment and his model of the economy, I think, would destroy jobs in this country-----

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