Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is because the Government is the same thing over and over again. Three years ago, a house cost €120 per sq. ft and the Government took 13.% on top of that which was €16,200. Today, it costs €200 per sq. ft and the Government takes €27,000. That is for every 1,000 sq. ft of a house from people who are working and paying for their own houses. That is what the Government is doing. Then it squanders it and gets no value for money.

I mentioned earlier that people have been looking for a sewage system in Askeaton, County Limerick for 40 years. For 40 years, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have promised a sewerage system every time. The Government has done this all around the country in every county and if the people of Ireland have any common sense, they will hold the Government to account due to what it has done to them. The Government has discriminated against people trying to build and live in their own homes in their own places.

There are the planning laws and the objectors who are objecting around here and then we look here at objections, objections, objections. The Government needs to live for the people who put it here and not put the people down into the ground. The Government is making people's lives miserable by taxing them out of existence and giving nothing back.

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