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Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: This is hurting.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It is disgraceful.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is it. It can mean only one thing.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Fine Gael did not recognise brilliance in its midst.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: It has dropped.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: This measure will affect 90% of health insurance plans, not just the gold-plated ones. That sleight-of-hand in the presentation of the measure is to be regretted. There is too much of this in today's presentation, a matter I will deal with more comprehensively in my contribution tomorrow. The presentation of many of the measures announced left a lot to be desired. This measure suggests an...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The opposite is happening.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Minister should speak to a few health economists. They would say the opposite. It is a dangerous position.

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 6: Income Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: They might be better at it.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (15 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the actions that are to be taken following the one-day special summit in Berlin on youth unemployment, particularly in respect of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34269/13]

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: There is no doubt that yesterday's budget places a disproportionate burden on older people in our society and targets them in a savage way. It seems the cuts were designed to target older people when they are most vulnerable, when they are sick, bereaved or living alone. In 2008 the Taoiseach made a statement in this House on how the Government should behave towards older people. He said...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is not true.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: There has been.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: There has been.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: Older people who might be watching this morning will find the Taoiseach's response incredible because he has managed to say black is white. He just said there is no change in the eligibility threshold. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton announced that reduced income thresholds for the over-70s medical cards are €900 for a couple and €500 for a single person.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: That is a reduction in eligibility which will withdraw medical cards from 35,000 older people. The Taoiseach should not come in and say-----

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach did not say that. A moment ago he said the opposite of that. That is why older people watching will be asking what is going on in this place when someone can stand up and say we should not bother with the fine print in the budget because what that says is not happening. That was the hallmark of yesterday's presentation. Thank God, the Taoiseach did not touch the fuel...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: That denies reality. The property tax will be doubled and that will hit their income. The medical card changes will also hit people's income. The prescription charge has gone from 50 cent to €2.50. People will have to pay this and it will reduce their income.

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The Government promotes the broad big lie that there are no cuts to the headline rates, but if we add everything else up, there is a significant reduction in the take home income of older people. The Government is taking money from them via the back door, as the Taoiseach should acknowledge. When people watch and see reality denied on an ongoing basis, they lose all faith in this House in...

Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2013)

Micheál Martin: The same happened last week in the case of discretionary medical cards.