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Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach mentioned that the increase was due to health concerns. Perhaps he will clarify when those concerns were adopted by both Government parties. I do not have their pre-election programmes before me and I do no know whether they entered into this commitment during the election. It is a revenue-raising measure. While their are health grounds for the increase, it is not one of the...

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: It has to do with the increase.

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I will give the Ceann Comhairle a commitment.

Financial Resolution No. 1: (Tobacco Products Tax) (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: I will be brief. I have nearly concluded. Of the €5 billion lost, much owes to the illegal importation and black market sale of cigarettes. The Government has not tackled this issue despite this measure to raise revenue and protect health. People are buying cigarettes on Dublin's streets and in towns and villages at half the price charged by retailers. Even a small proportion of the...

Written Answers — House Repossessions: House Repossessions (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 17: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 24 November 2011, the number of legal cases taken by each of the banks named for each of the years detailed; the number of repossessions sought and secured by each bank in each respective year; the number of repossessions of domestic properties by bank and by year; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 26 October 2011, the reason County Donegal Vocational Education Committee use mapping services to calculate distances using back roads when there is clearly no bus route available to students; his views that this is justifiable and the legislation that outlines these measures. [38328/11]

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: While, obviously, the Minister is taking telephone calls from the Bundestag to seek opinions on his announcement, I would like to have the attention of the Taoiseach.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Last February a huge majority of the electorate voted for change. They voted for an end to the failed policies of Fianna Fáil and the politics of the Green Party. They voted for a new approach to the economy, unemployment, the banks, public services and political reform. Moreover, they voted for an end to political cronyism. They wanted change, fairness and equality. Most of all, they...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: While Fianna Fáil caused this mess-----

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: -----today the Government has added to it. Tá daoine ina shuí sa bhaile a thug tacaíocht do bhur gcuid páirtithe. Tá siad ag éisteacht leis an gcáinfhaisnéis seo. D'éist siad leis an méid a bhí le rá ag an Aire, an Teachta Howlin, inné. Tá said ag iarraidh cén difríocht a rinne an toghchán i mí Feabhra seo caite. Is cinnte gur tháinig athrú ar na páirtithe sa rialtas,...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Had Sinn Féin not put these payments on the agenda, sitting Deputies would still be in receipt of them. The Taoiseach did not go after the high earners in this budget because he and his colleagues are the high earners. Times are tough but they are not tough for the Government or its political cronies.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: Tell me, Taoiseach, riddle me this-----

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: -----what happened to those who caused the crisis? What does the budget say to them - the bankers, the developers and the politicians who were there at the time of the crash? Where is the fairness in the budget for them? We know that 22 of the top 50 Anglo Irish executives who were there at the time of the collapse are still in their positions. Nineteen of them earn more than €175,000 a...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: While the Government is increasing taxes on ordinary working families, Ministers, junior Ministers and officeholders are still able to claim an unvouched tax write-down of up to €3,500 to have their laundry done when they stay in Dublin hotels.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: That is the type of fairness the Government wants to introduce in this budget. If this is the Taoiseach's and the Minister's idea of fairness, it is a very skewed sense of fairness. What was fair about the cuts yesterday?

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: They were of the most vicious nature. The Government went after children, the disabled, lone parents, widows and carers. These were its five target groups. It spun a line about protecting social welfare payments – about not cutting the basic unemployment rate. All the while the Government was cutting the extra child benefit rates, multiple birth grants, abolishing disability benefits...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: We demand that €40 million back. We will give them a calculator at Christmas or maybe they are just continuing with the Kevin Cardiff school of economics with €3.6 billion here and €40 million in health cuts there; sure what the hell; it does not make a difference.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: There are cuts of €1.9 billion across these three areas and these were the front-line services the Government was supposed to protect. Tá gach páirtí istigh anseo ag rá go bhfuil siad i bhfabhar na Gaeltachta agus na Gaeilge. Ní leor briathra breátha agus caint gan ghníomh. Tá sé rísholéir anois nach bhfuil ar siúl ag an Rialtas ach cur i gcéill agus bréaga. Tá gearradh...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: The reckless economic policies pursued by Fianna Fáil during the boom created the economic crisis. The years of austerity and bank bailouts that it followed deepened the crisis. Now the continuation of these same policies by Fine Gael and the Labour Party will only serve to make matters worse. Across the country people will have watched the Minister deliver his budget speech today and...

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Pearse Doherty: This would create a minimum of 60,000 jobs and potentially save up to 100,000 others. Our approach to economic recovery is far more comprehensive than the Government's deficit focus strategy. The Government believes it can cut its way out of the recession, but this was tried by Fianna Fáil and it completely and utterly failed; €20.6 billion of unfair taxes and cuts later, has the...