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Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: What is the Minister talking about?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Really.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: That is a joke.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: That is a joke. What is the Minister talking about?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister is posturing again as if this is a debate on Dáil reform.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: We did not sell the country down the Swanee.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I imagine those comments hurt.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: We did not make the type of announcements being made here.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: What about Ballymun?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: With the agreement of the House, I wish to share my time with Deputies Jack Wall and Mary Upton.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I say to the Minister, Deputy Gormley, that for somebody who could not get himself out of bed on that fateful night last September when the Government decided to bail out the banks, he has a brass neck to come into the House and boast about his record in Government, particularly when one considers that this country is in the throes of the worst recession in the history of the State. The...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I remember the comments of the Minister and those of his colleague, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Eamon Ryan last October. He stated he was very proud of the budget that hit the pensioners. Last night the Ministers' colleague, Deputy Mary White, spoke of how the Supplementary budget was a wonderful one that had the fingerprints of the Green Party all...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: Over the past weeks and months we all have had to endure a significant campaign of spin by this Government concerning what it proposed to do in this budget. The main thrust of the spin was that we were all in this situation together and that everybody must pay, from top to bottom. The Government was at this from two months out when it began to brief all the political correspondents to the...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The reason 40% were outside the tax net is that so many of them are on incredibly low incomes. That 40% includes over 100,000 pensioners, for example.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: It includes large numbers who are accurately described as being the "working poor". These are people who are working in minimum waged jobs and are really struggling to keep their heads above water. It includes the many thousands of people who are dependent on welfare who are just about getting by. It is outrageous to say to these people that somehow it is their fault the economy is in a...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: -----about the considerable tax relief on pension schemes for high rollers? What about all the property-based tax relief schemes?

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: The Minister should not talk to us about fairness. He does not understand the meaning of the word. This Government speaks in the House about hitting people who are earning €20,000. It claims that this is fair while it lets high-rollers off with paying little or no tax. It is just outrageous. The public has not bought that, for all that the Government's spin machines were in action over...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: There is no Green Party representative in the Chamber on a regular basis. This supplementary budget is savage in the manner in which it targets families and people on welfare and lets the better off completely off the hook. It will not be tolerated by the public. It is fundamentally unfair; it fails on the grounds of fairness. This budget is being introduced against the backdrop of all...

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: What the Government is doing will save money.

Financial Resolution No. 11: General (Resumed) (8 Apr 2009)

Róisín Shortall: I am about to do that. The Government parties had choices regarding mortgage interest relief. They chose to hit families that are struggling to get by. The choice was to do that or examine the relief available to landlords.