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- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How does one pay while on social welfare? The Minister has not answered that question. How does one pay if one cannot pay one's mortgage?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is utterly untrue.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister's tax policy has not helped them one bit.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So mansions with huge gardens do not get valued for property tax. Millionaires get off.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Government's tactics?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Prior to the adjournment of this debate I was asking the Minister to answer at some point this evening the question that his Government has failed to answer despite this issue being debated across the country and to some extent, although severely curtailed, in this House. How are people in mortgage distress who are unable to pay their mortgages supposed to pay this charge? They simply...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know and I am pointing out that it is not, as the Government claims, a property tax because a considerable amount of the property of the very wealthy will not be taken into account. It is just a tax on the family home. Why does the Minister not just call it that? It will penalise people in a brutal and cruel way. We will discuss the details as we move through the Bill in the short time...
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has made a mockery of it already. What is the point?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a farce.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What have you heard?
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could remove the guillotine.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Government should be utterly ashamed of itself for what it is doing and the way in which it is trampling on the democratic process. At the best of times, huge numbers of people in this country have little respect for politics and for this institution. What the Government is doing, contrary to the promises it made prior to taking office, is bringing this institution into further...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, the Taoiseach is bringing this House into disrepute. He is manipulating the democratic process.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is trying to silence, in a dictatorial way, any dissent or even proper scrutiny of this Bill, and he should not be allowed to continue with this.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach can carry on with his cynicism but a line must be drawn on his manipulation of the processes in this House and the democratic process. What he is doing is a disgrace.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government, yet again, is trying to impose a guillotine to foreclose and prevent debate on probably the most important issue this House will deal with this year and maybe in the lifetime of this Government. Hundreds of thousands of families, people who are already struggling, will be driven into an impossible situation as a result of the measure the Government is proposing, and it will...
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is making a mockery of this House.
- Order of Business (5 Mar 2013)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is going from the bizarre to the ridiculous. The Taoiseach should not be allowed to answer serious points in this way. He is making a joke out of this House.