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Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I welcome Deputy Fitzmaurice to the House and congratulate him on his victory in the by-election. I wish him a long tenure in the House. This measure is of huge and positive assistance. It will encourage people to save and will reward responsible saving by first-time buyers. Where I agree with Deputy Timmins is that first-time buyers have a right to have the dream of owning their own...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: They oppose the rights of citizens to aspire to have their own home and they put forward nothing-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: They put forward nothing to help them. They abandon the people at the altar of populism every single time.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: That will be their downfall. They got caught last Friday in Dublin South-West and they will get caught again in 2016.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I have been listening.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I did not heckle Deputy Tóibín.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Peadar Tóibín: Deputy Buttimer is well able to heckle. He is one of the best hecklers here, for God's sake.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I have listened to the populism of those in Sinn Féin. I have listened to their empty rhetoric for too long. They peddle a load of baloney on the airwaves.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: It is time they got caught out. They lead people up to the hill and then they get caught and exposed. It is about time they came out and told the people the truth. They have no policy. They do not stand for anything. All they stand for is populism.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Michael Kitt: I ask Deputy Buttimer to address the resolution.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: I am doing that. Tonight, first-time buyers are able to save to have that first home, with the certainty that they will be rewarded by the State.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: All of us agree, whatever our political hue, that we have a housing crisis in our country and that we need to build more houses. This is a Government which has put in place a plan to do so. In response to Deputies Coppinger and Tóibín, I accept we would all love to be able to click our fingers on a Friday at 5.30 p.m. for the person who comes into our office with a social housing...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The difference between the Opposition and the Government is that we put forward a plan to help them.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: The plan is predicated upon the fact that we need to recognise that, for 20 years, we did not have a social housing policy by Governments. It was abandoned on the altar of the developer and the construction industry, and we allowed it to come to a stop.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: If we look at the figures for social housing built under Fianna Fáil's tenure in government, Deputy Kelleher would have to admit it was an abject failure on its behalf.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: We need land to build houses and we need people to construct them. What we need is a construction industry that is normalised and that is free from the shackles-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: And free from nonsense - I agree. This is in order that we can build quality housing. We need to encourage the supply of houses. If we look at the figures on what was built last year, fewer than 9,000 units were built when we should be building 25,000 or 30,000 per annum. I point out to Deputy Coppinger that we have to create a sustainable property market. I do not fly the flag for...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Higgins does not own the people who come into his office.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Many of us in this House are working with the Government every day.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Refunds of Appropriate Tax to First Time Buyers (14 Oct 2014)

Jerry Buttimer: Where Deputy Higgins and I disagree is that we on this side of the House put forward policies to bring about change, where people can live and can buy.