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- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government has been putting its trust in the idea that people will not compare the claims it is making with the substance of what it has decided to do. Most Ministers have been making claims which are the direct opposite of the truth and have been using unprecedented gimmicks to try to cover up the hard reality of their choices. In the next few weeks, they will have to explain exactly...
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: A Cheann Comhairle, I had signalled before Deputy Nulty.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I was but I could not get the Chair's attention.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: We are supportive of these resolutions in so far as they go, but they do not go far enough in terms of redressing the imbalance at the heart of this budget.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I have witnessed this evening a degree of intolerance and bitterness in the contributions from Labour Party Members towards their former members, which I have not heard previously in this House.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Members have left our party-----
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----but we always allowed them the right to speak in this Chamber, and it should be a cherished right.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The degree of attack on Deputy Broughan by the Labour Whip as I entered the Chamber was unacceptable and at a low level.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: In terms of the imbalance at the heart of this budget-----
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----workers on €25,000 will witness from today a 36% increase in their PRSI-----
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----whereas a worker on €175,000 will witness a mere increase of 3.9% on their PRSI.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: That is the imbalance at the heart of this budget.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I respectfully suggest that is the problem for many members of the Labour Party. Regarding the two meanest cuts, I appeal to the Government to re-examine the respite grant-----
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: -----because there was no need to cut that, and also the clothing allowance.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Regarding the resolutions before us, I will not act in a patronising manner, as Deputy Donohoe has just done. No one needs lectures from him because Fine Gael and the Labour Party opposed every single measure in the past four years and promptly adopted all of them once they went into Government after the general election.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: They reversed many of the commitments they made.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: One of the Ministers present stood on the steps of Trinity College and made a solemn promise to the students of Ireland that he would reverse student charges, not increase them. He broke that solemn commitment as soon as he came to power.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: In many ways these resolutions are progressive and we support them but they do not redress the wider imbalance in the budget proper. I am reminded of one of the sayings from the great leader, Seán Lemass, namely, that there was only one Labour Party in Ireland and that happened to be Fianna Fáil.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: It is not over there.
- Financial Resolution No. 14: Capital Acquisitions Tax (5 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Labour Party did.