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Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 1: Alcohol Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Pearse Doherty: This is one of the Government's main taxation proposals. It will take in €145 million in additional taxes from people who consume alcohol. The retention of the 9% VAT rate for the tourism sector been dressed up by the Minister as making up for this, but the 9% VAT rate for 2014 will amount to slightly more - around €290 million from across the entire hospitality and tourism...

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

Pearse Doherty: The Government should send postcards to Perth and Canberra in Australia, and to New York and London, because the young people of this State could not wait for it to get its act together. They have given up and left. It is time the Government got its act together. It announced that policy almost three years ago. When the Government came to power the unemployment rate was 13.5%, as per the...

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

Pearse Doherty: Now it is 13.3%.

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

Pearse Doherty: That is in addition to the 176,000 people who have emigrated on the Government's watch.

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

Pearse Doherty: Some 176,000 people have emigrated on the Taoiseach's watch. Sixty percent of the unemployed are now categorised as long-term unemployed. The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation is fond of saying that the Government does not create jobs. That is one thing we know for sure - it definitely does not. We are in a jobs crisis and the Government's official response has been to hold...

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

Pearse Doherty: There are many other issues we can deal with at a later stage when the Finance Bill is introduced. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald will deal with some of these issues too.

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

Pearse Doherty: The reality is that how the Government treats the deficit can either add to or fix the problem.

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

Pearse Doherty: There is scope for deficit reduction next year from fair measures. Sinn Féin has shown the Government how to do that, but this Government does not do fair. It is not in its dictionary nor in its vocabulary. The Tánaiste left that wee four-letter word outside the door when he entered Government Buildings.

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

Pearse Doherty: In his speech on the first day he was elected, the Taoiseach delivered a powerful observation of where the State stood. He said our Republic had been betrayed, that people were afraid of losing their homes, and that parents were being rendered speechless at the sight of their children boarding planes to countries where our spring is their autumn and our today is their tomorrow.

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

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach's words were:Employers are traumatised by laying off staff and shutting down businesses. Workers pray for invisibility as they queue for the dole. Families worry that the neighbours might see the Vincent de Paul calling to their door, dreading the postman dropping bills like stealth bombs into the hall.

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

Pearse Doherty: What has the Government done to make the situation better for the people the Taoiseach described?

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

Pearse Doherty: The answer is "Nothing," because he has intensified their pain, worry and anguish. Our Republic was betrayed. The Taoiseach has had three opportunities to fix it in three budgets. There is nothing in what he offers today, however, that will put the economy on the right track or offer people the solace they need.

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

Pearse Doherty: The bills will still fall through the letter-boxes; the planes will still be full of our young people leaving; the dole queues will still snake around the corner of the block. People are still losing their homes, and the St. Vincent de Paul has never been busier. I say to the Minister, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste that their Government's budget is as empty as were the words of the...

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

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach promised on taking office that Ministers who do not perform will be moved out of the way, so he should do the right thing. Sinn Féin has a Private Members' time motion on bilateral cochlear implants and the Government should make an announcement on them, as it should have done today. It should give the gift of hearing to the 200 children as time is running out for them.

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

Pearse Doherty: We have heard many figures and we must ensure that we do not forget some very important examples. There are 142,892 family homes in mortgage distress at the end of June this year, and that figure has doubled in the life of this Government, just as it doubled under the life of the previous Government. I am sure the Taoiseach cannot begin to imagine the worry and anxiety that people face when...

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

Pearse Doherty: It is unbelievable. It is not our fault that we are seeking logic where there is none in the Government's policies. It does not make sense. Níl dabht ar bith go gcodlóidh an na hAirí go sámh anocht, cé nach mbeidh codladh ar bith ar aithreacha agus máithreacha mar go mbeidh siad ag luí sa leaba agus imní orthu fá dtaobh den méid atá...

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

Pearse Doherty: I will give way to the Taoiseach if he is willing to justify that.

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

Pearse Doherty: A Deputy can give way under the rules of the House.

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

Pearse Doherty: Is the Taoiseach is willing to justify the policies of this Fine Gael and Labour Party Government announced today? A 23-year-old unemployed person can live on €100,000-----

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

Pearse Doherty: A hundred euro - yet the Government will sit idly by and not let out a peep at the annual general meeting about Mr. Boucher earning €800,000. I allow the Taoiseach time if he wants to justify that.