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- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: When the Minister was in opposition he called for us to spend more and tax less.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister should read his party's manifesto.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister was promising to cut taxes and so forth.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister was promising to cut taxes when he was in opposition.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: So the Minister supports it.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: So it is not the troika that wants it.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Last week the Government announced with great fanfare - it will claim rightly and justifiably - a deal on the promissory notes. Over the weekend we saw a certain amount of spinning to take credit for it and it was mentioned how the Government had said it would threaten and intimidate the Governor of the Central Bank to make sure a deal came through on time. There was the banging of fists on...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: It then published the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013. That tax is inherently unfair, as it does not take into account ability to pay.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: It does not take into account the recommendations of the Commission on Taxation with regard to certain cohorts.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The fact of the matter is that the tax is inherently unfair and unjust.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: The Deputy obviously did not read the manifestos because in his party's manifesto he did not propose it either.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Deputy Emmet Stagg did not read the memorandum of understanding either because it included a reference to a site valuation tax, which is something very different altogether.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: I raise this matter because there is grave concern outside the House and on the back benches of the Labour Party and Fine Gael. This tax is seen as being the wrong tax at the wrong time.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: In fairness, there has been heckling. I would like to make a few valid points if Members opposite would listen. The CSO has published figures that show that disposable income has fallen for a fourth year in a row. It is outlining that people simply cannot afford the basics of heating, gas and oil.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: When Deputy Eric Byrne is on one's side, one knows one is in trouble.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Let me make three points. Why did the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and the Government not take into account the recommendations of the Commission on Taxation with regard to people who had purchased homes at the height of the boom and paid excessive stamp duty? That is one critical issue.
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: Why did they not take into account inability to pay at a time when families were under huge pressure and the figures correlated with this? They are the two key issues about which people want to know. Would it not be appropriate to at least give some social dividend in view of the deal on the promissory notes to address a generation who are finding it very difficult in middle Ireland,...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: If he had dictated, he would have secured a write-down.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason asthma sufferers' access to medication is subject to significant geographical variation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7481/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (14 Feb 2013)
Billy Kelleher: To ask the Minister for Health the reason better performing hospitals have seen their budget allocations reduced in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7491/13]