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- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is the imbalance at the heart of this budget.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I respectfully suggest that is the problem for many members of the Labour Party. Regarding the two meanest cuts, I appeal to the Government to re-examine the respite grant-----
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----because there was no need to cut that, and also the clothing allowance.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Regarding the resolutions before us, I will not act in a patronising manner, as Deputy Donohoe has just done. No one needs lectures from him because Fine Gael and the Labour Party opposed every single measure in the past four years and promptly adopted all of them once they went into Government after the general election.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: They reversed many of the commitments they made.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: One of the Ministers present stood on the steps of Trinity College and made a solemn promise to the students of Ireland that he would reverse student charges, not increase them. He broke that solemn commitment as soon as he came to power.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: In many ways these resolutions are progressive and we support them but they do not redress the wider imbalance in the budget proper. I am reminded of one of the sayings from the great leader, Seán Lemass, namely, that there was only one Labour Party in Ireland and that happened to be Fianna Fáil.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not over there.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Irish people have shown time and again that they are willing to accept hard choices. They understand there is no easy way out of an unprecedented crisis which has engulfed Ireland and much of Europe and the world in recent years. However, their support is based on measures meeting two core principles. They want budgets which are both fair and make a clear contribution to returning growth...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: No, we did not. The memorandum of understanding refers to a completely different type of tax from the one the Government has introduced.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The only Government strategy evident this week is a public relations strategy.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government has been putting its trust in the idea that people will not compare the claims it is making-----
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Taoiseach and I would appreciate an opportunity to make my contribution to the House.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government has been putting its trust in the idea that people will not compare the claims it is making with the substance of what it has decided to do. Most Ministers have been making claims which are the direct opposite of the truth and have been using unprecedented gimmicks to try to cover up the hard reality of their choices. In the next few weeks, they will have to explain exactly...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: They always claimed that there was a better and easier way.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Labour and Fine Gael made reckless commitments and promises before the election that they could not fulfil. While the targets are correct, there is reason to believe that they might not be met and that public support for them has been undermined by the crass and growing inequity of the decisions being taken by the Government. A new concern is that these targets may not be met because of a...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The report card shows that every one of those cuts and charges has been delivered.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Labour even went so far as to say that there were red lines-----
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----it would never cross. Everyone should replay the current Tánaiste's interview with RTE about child benefit.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Tánaiste was absolute about it.