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- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Less than two years later, we know that every little does hurt. Labour has implemented everything it claimed it would never do. Due to the mounting wave of negative commentary about the Government's regressive policies and lack of any real innovation in almost two years, it yesterday unveiled a new tactic. This involved changing the baselines wherever doing so might give a better result....
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Yes.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: When one takes the time to read the annexe, one discovers that our tax system is progressive only because of two budgets against which every member of the current Cabinet voted.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The Government is right about the system being progressive, but its members voted against every measure in the two key budgets that made it so.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: If one includes just the budgetary decisions of Fine Gael and Labour, one finds a deeply regressive impact. The backing away from a real reform of the political and budgetary process has been obvious to anyone paying attention. Last year’s budget fortnight has been abandoned and a traditional budget day restored. In the Oireachtas, discussion was allowed in advance of the Estimates,...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: Irish people have shown time and again that they are willing to accept hard choices. They understand there is no easy way out of an unprecedented crisis which has engulfed Ireland and much of Europe and the world in recent years. However, their support is based on measures meeting two core principles. They want budgets which are both fair and make a clear contribution to returning growth...
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: No, we did not. The memorandum of understanding refers to a completely different type of tax from the one the Government has introduced.
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: The only Government strategy evident this week is a public relations strategy.
- 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-----
- Financial Resolutions 2013 - Financial Resolution No. 15: General (Resumed) (6 Dec 2012)
Micheál Martin: I did not interrupt the Taoiseach and I would appreciate an opportunity to make my contribution to the House.
- 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-----