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- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Supports (11 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: 357. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the total amount of Industrial Development Agency funding that was granted to a company (details supplied) in County Waterford for each of the years that they were located in the specified business park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26663/13]
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Regardless of whether we like it, the property tax is needed to maintain essential local services in our communities. This Bill is an opportunistic, populist move by the Opposition. The same Opposition regularly calls for improved services in every local authority in the country and insists on more funding for communities in...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: How would it pay for local services? It does not tell us. This is the great economic black hole that Sinn Féin has created. In the North it is happy to collect an average of £1,000 per household for spending on local services. Of course, Sinn Féin points the finger of blame up there at Westminster, while here it points it at the Irish Government. The party always puts it on...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: What was the result? They were competing with each other. Sinn Féin was competing with the independent socialists, going into communities and telling people not to pay their taxes. Where are they now, when those people have to pay more? They have codded the people and now they have deserted them. That is what Sinn Féin was doing - going around the country, cod acting and...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: That is the ill-judged, populist politics in which Sinn Féin is engaging.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: The Sinn Féin Deputies come back in here and table parliamentary questions to Ministers in this House, encourage their local authority members to demand and insist on services and so forth, but they never demand to know where the money will come from.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: That is the populism and the lack of leadership that Sinn Féin has and always will have.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: There was no sign of that in the party's budget.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: What is Deputy Tóibín's solution?
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: Has Sinn Féin introduced any Bills up there to repeal rates?
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: It is happy to spend them and claim the credit.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: Is that now the level of the Deputy's debate?
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: As if Sinn Féin has a monopoly.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy party blames Westminster for collecting it but it is happy to spend it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy is saying that Westminster is saying that. He is blaming Westminster for doing that.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: Priory Hall is not-----
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: Do not worry about me at all.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: I represent working class people as well and I represent them well in government.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: Sinn Féin would send the troika home.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Paudie Coffey: The Deputy has all the bluster but no solutions.