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- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: As opposed to the united Ireland for the slow learners opposite.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: That is the first true statement the Deputy has made all night.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: I can assure the House that no one wants to pay taxes.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: I am sure that is a big surprise to Deputy Gerry Adams. One can table any motion one likes about abolishing taxes, but it is human nature that no one wants to pay taxes, least of all a new tax.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: The options are very limited when one is in a troika agreement and our economic sovereignty was ceded by our predecessors. It is not easy to ask the people for a further contribution to bail us out, but that is what we have to do to retrieve the economic situation we inherited. I would have expected Sinn Féin to, at least, show some consistency on taxation. It is asking us to abolish...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: That is so-called socialism. Members opposite must be the only ones who call themselves socialists who do not want to impose taxes on property.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: Sinn Féin wishes to abolish taxes in this jurisdiction that it is prepared to stand over in the North of Ireland. Regarding the household charge, to Deputy Brian Stanley's credit, he did not tell his constituents not to register for the charge. However, some of his colleagues did.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: I must compliment Deputy Mary Lou McDonald as she said that at least people should pay the property tax as it was the law of the land. I am surprised the other so-called socialists, Deputies Joe Higgins and Richard Boyd Barrett, are not in the Chamber. In the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area 90.53% of those liable for the household charge paid it. I am not surprised Deputy...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: Sinn Féin is out of sync with the electorate. In spite of their personal financial difficulties, the people have rejected the Sinn Féin campaign and have instead registered for the household charge. They have signed up as real patriots.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: These are the people who want to make a real contribution in a modest way towards getting us out of the financial difficulties in which we find ourselves. These are the real patriots who want to restore our economic sovereignty which our predecessors, Fianna Fáil and the Green Party, frittered away, particularly Fianna Fáil. Thanks to the responsible approach taken by a great...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: I expect the local property tax to have multiple benefits, including providing a more sustainable and resilient system of funding for local government. Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil want to impose more income taxes on ordinary workers.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: They do not want to broaden the base, including income tax. Sinn Féin and other socialists should not be hypocritical. In opposing the local property tax they are leading unfortunate low-paid individuals and unfortunate persons on social welfare payments into penalties and fines through advocating non-compliance with the law and non-payment of a tax. Meanwhile, on their salaries, they...
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: What about the principle of the tax?
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: Yes; I thought the Deputy was in favour of a united Ireland.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy's party talks to him too.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: The Deputy was blaming Fianna Fáil a few minutes ago.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: If that individual is in receipt of mortgage interest supplement he would have been exempt from the charge last year.
- Finance (Local Property Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: Those people are fortunate they are not living in Northern Ireland.
- Topical Issue Debate: Leader Programmes (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: The Leader elements of the rural development programme 2007-13 commenced in February 2009 after a delay of more than two years which reduced the time available to allocate funding to less than five years rather than the original seven. Two main issues have impacted on the revised allocations notified to local development companies last month. The first relates to overall programme...
- Topical Issue Debate: Leader Programmes (12 Jun 2013)
Phil Hogan: I cannot be responsible for the Connacht Tribune.