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Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: -----and proud of contributing to their society. The Taoiseach is not providing for that.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: It will take a change of Government to fix this society and this economy-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: -----and help it recover its sense of self, and help our young people in particular to use their talents and their education.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: In terms of the statistics in the budget, I want to ask the Taoiseach about the universal social charge. It is very telling that his Government has chosen to use the term "charge" and not "contribution". When the welfare state was built, the term that was always used was "contribution" because a contribution implied that if one contributed to one's country and one's State during one's...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: When we bear in mind the number of people who have become unemployed, it is quite a shift and it is borne in the tables at the back of the Budget Statement particularly by people in the middle income range. People in the middle and lower income ranges are taking quite an amount of the hit.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: The Labour Party's approach was very clear. We suggested that the tax shelters, particularly the property-based tax reliefs which have cost this country so much, be closed this year. That would have allowed a slight easing in terms of people at the lower income level or people on social welfare. We also suggested that the pension reliefs, 80% of which are targeted at the top 20% of...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: We proposed that the heavy lifting would be done by removing the tax breaks as a down payment, Taoiseach, just so that you understand-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: Let us recall past events. In 2006-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: In 2006, I advised the Taoiseach that withdrawing the 1% stamp duty on contracts for difference would turn the Dublin exchange into a casino. I was right and he was wrong. I advised the Taoiseach, from the time he took up his stint as Minister for Finance, that he should get rid of the property-based tax reliefs by bringing them down slowly but what did he do?

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: In the large print he said he was abolishing them but in the small print he allowed them to go out even further.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: As a consequence, he blew the bubble and maintained it.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: Had he had the insight-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: -----to bring them to an end then-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: Mr. Regling-----

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: Where are the greatest number of ghost estates that feature prominently in every article about Ireland? They are on what is called the Shannon corridor, upper and lower. That is where the bulk of the ghost estates are located.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: I apologise, middle. I am going geographically on a map from the Shannon Pot down to the middle, close to the Taoiseach's own area.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: That is where the ghost estates are located.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: I understand the Taoiseach's regrets but all I can say to him is that the reduction in tax breaks should be a down payment by those people against a more general tax reform in Irish society. He has not done that in the budget today. He is rushing through these measures, such that the Greens will be able to go home to bed early. They will hardly have time to read it.

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: What are we going to do? In the White Paper on Government expenditure published on Friday night, the bill for interest this year for Ireland is €5.1 billion. Three years ago Ireland was paying €1.5 billion a year in interest. I ask the Taoiseach to bear in mind all those women who will lose their child benefit and the heavy lifting, so to speak, they will have to do as a result. Of the...

Budget Statement 2011 (7 Dec 2010)

Joan Burton: The people who were negotiating that deal, and the people in the Commission and the ECB, lost the run of themselves. Irish civil servants are good enough to produce quarterly figures instead of having the humiliation every Friday-----