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- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: Santa's document.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: If the Senator says he is speechless, he should remain so.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: The Senator has promoted Senator Darragh O'Brien to Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: It was a Fianna Fáil Government which introduced the bank guarantee and led us into the troika programme.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: -----to tax property-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: The Senator is unduly impassioned.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: What about pensions? What about the measures on capital gains and acquisitions?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: There is an empty vessel across the floor of the House making a lot of noise about this.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: As Senator O'Brien knows well, there are 14 measures in the budget that are specifically targeted to tax wealth, a direct consequence of the position of the Labour Party in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: If Senator O'Brien-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: If Senator O'Brien bothered to read the objective commentary made overnight and today about the budget he will see it is generally acknowledged that this is a budget which targets wealth, as it should.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: There is the property tax. For the first time we will see a tax that is squarely focused on taxing wealth and ensuring that those with the most will pay most. It is a property tax, rather than an income tax. Senator O'Brien well knows that when his Government was in office it focused purely on income-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: This is a far more progressive approach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I reiterate that empty vessels make most noise.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: There is no doubt about that.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: I welcome that the Minister for Social Protection will attend the House today to deal with the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: -----which will legalise humanist weddings. It was initiated as a Private Members' Bill in this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: It is a burning issue for many people and I am delighted the Bill has cross-party support. I remind Senator O'Brien that the Minister, Deputy Burton, will attend the House over several days to deal with the Social Welfare Bill and changes to social welfare.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Ivana Bacik: There will be plenty of time to debate the issues he wishes to raise.