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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach breached Standing Orders.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: He also attempted to suggest that I misled the House. I did not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: I did not. I quoted directly what the Taoiseach just quoted.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: I did.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach should not be up to such things. He is not honest with people in telling us about carbon tax. He has not been honest about it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: No, I do not. I quoted the Taoiseach exactly.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: What is the Government's?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has been in government for seven years.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is making an issue. I am grand about it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: There has been plenty of time to do the numbers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have the numbers done.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach raised this issue last August and has done nothing since.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach is in the Executive and Government. He should do something about the issue. He is in la-la land about this stuff.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach dodged the issue. He dodged it in the budget and he dodged it just half an hour ago.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: There is a very good article in the Irish Mirrortoday which details the tremendous attraction that Government Ministers have for golf clubs and the extraordinary lengths to which they went to lobby for lottery grants for such clubs. There was a time when golf clubs were excluded from sports grants given that many thought that the clubs' own resources were enough to sustain them. What...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach said in August-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: The Government said in August it would increase carbon tax-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Over the past number of years, budgets have reduced income tax and the universal social charge, USC, modestly by approximately €300 million per year. To do that and maintain increased spending, there had to be increases in taxes elsewhere. Last year, for example, commercial stamp duty went from 2% to 6%. That yielded approximately €400 million, which paid for the tax...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: Why did the Taoiseach not answer the question I asked? I asked whether he could give me a precise trajectory of the annual increases in carbon tax that will happen year by year over the next five years. The Minister for Finance has said that there will be carbon tax increases. The Taoiseach said in August that there will be carbon tax increases. It is all very well to make a specific...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2018)

Micheál Martin: -----income tax by €600 million per year without increasing taxes elsewhere. That is an honest position I am putting to the Taoiseach, and he needs to be honest with people and say that is what will have to happen in the coming years. He owes it to us to give us the same precision as he gave us on income tax reductions.