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Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: I will take 40 seconds. We need to get away from the idea that when someone goes out sick, he or she is deliberately doing so in order to be absent from work. That was the point made in the Minister's speech, because this measure featured in a paragraph entitled "absenteeism". The purpose is to punish workers who go sick. I do not know what the Labour Party is doing at this stage, but it...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: It will save €13 million.

Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: €13 million.

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: I can understand the rationale for this proposal. I take it that the basic objective of the exercise is to try to kick-start the property industry. In this context the Budget Statement was interesting. At one level there was a good deal of criticism of the fact that the property bubble was a fundamental factor in the collapse of the economy but the more deeper underlying problems relate to...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Was advice received on this taxation measure and, if s,o is it possible for it to be published? Was there any lobbying by interest groups in favour of the introduction of such a measure and, if so, is it possible for this information to be published? How was the figure of €64 million calculated? It seems to indicate an expectation or anticipation of approximately €2 billion worth of...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: For heaven's sake.

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: I disagree with the Minister.

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Question 16: To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered or will consider changes to competition law to deal with what the Financial Regulator recently referred to as the dysfunctional nature of the banking market and which he cited as one of the main factors preventing ECB mortgage interest rate cuts being passed on. [38310/11]

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Deputy needs a further minute, given all the heckling.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Actually, we did not.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach stated they would be 1.6% two weeks ago.

Budget Statement 2012 (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Let people speak. (Interruptions).

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: These are difficult times. Significant challenges face us and difficult choices have to be made. Yesterday the Government announced that the student registration fee would increase by €250, that the pupil-teacher ratio would be increased by decimating the career guidance service and that the fuel allowance would decrease. These are some of the wrong choices made by the Government...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: The Taoiseach has concentrated the cuts disproportionately on selected groups within the welfare system and society. By any yardstick, few would have believed this decision possible, given the need of young people with disabilities for support. The programme for Government which is nine months old, states, "We will ensure that the quality of life of people with disabilities is enhanced"....

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: We all knew before today that it affects new claimants, but that does not make it any less calculating, cold or callous than it is. I challenge the Taoiseach to produce any parent who will say he or she would prefer to get €111 less when their child becomes 16 than children get today. That is what the Taoiseach said. He said parents would prefer this. They would not prefer this.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: Will we ever get rid of the bureaucratic speak, such as "inappropriate", "in line with" and all that nonsense, which tries to mask the reality of what happened yesterday? Young people with disabilities need help and support, not the removal of their incomes as substantially and dramatically as the Government did yesterday. That is what happened.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: How can the Taoiseach patronise and tell any 15 year old next year, when the person who went before him got €111 more than he will get, that this is better for him? We have all been aware of the cost of disability for quite a long time. We are all aware of what people have been saying, that young people with disabilities have far greater challenges than young people without disabilities...

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: When the Taoiseach says, "we are putting them in line with others", that is an appalling use of language which tries to mask the reality. This is wrong.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: There are other ways to save €50 million.

Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)

Micheál Martin: There is no question but that there is another way to do it.