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- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Does he agree that one cannot describe a tax which is not linked to a person's income as fair or progressive?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: In the North, people get free education, including free schoolbooks and transport, free health care and-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Those in government will pay a hefty price for this, their second gruelling austerity budget.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: They are irrelevant.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: On a point of order, a request was made to the Leader of the House to extend the time allowed, but he refused to do so. We are well over time and the Minister of State is still speaking, yet some Senators did not have a chance to contribute.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: They are very credible.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: With respect, we made a commitment to the people after the general election.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: So did the people.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: When the Government introduced the household charge it assumed it would sail through and the people would accept it because it was only ¤100. How wrong that was. I have a final point on the property tax. The Government told people on low incomes they could defer their payment but now it will charge them 4% interest. These are low income earners who will be charged for deferring their...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: The Labour Party should be ashamed.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: It is the thin end of the wedge.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Wait until next year.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: There was a lot of rhetoric from Eamon Gilmore when he was in opposition.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Hayes, to the House. There is no doubt that this is an anti-children, anti-family and anti-jobs budget. The Minister of State said in his contribution that all of what is contained in the budget is necessary. However, he failed to outline in detail exactly what is in the budget. I would like to put on record exactly what is in the budget, or at...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Yet, ordinary working people, those who bore the brunt of the last five austerity budgets, are being hit again. The property tax is not linked to ability to pay. The property tax for a family with a home valued at ¤200,000 will be ¤320 per annum.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Property tax in respect of a modest house - most houses in the country are modest - will be ¤320 per annum. I am talking about people who live here, not in Northern Ireland. People are not buying that argument because they know what people in the North are getting.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: I am speaking about the property tax.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
David Cullinane: Senator Moloney can be silly if she wants to. I am speaking about the property tax.