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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)

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: 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: 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.

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

Jerry Buttimer: That is why this Government will deliver. That is why we will have a sustainable housing policy that will deliver to people. I accept it is not as fast as some of us on this side of the House would like.

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

Jerry Buttimer: I accept that.

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

Peadar Tóibín: Is Deputy Buttimer speaking about the same budget as the one we all heard about today?

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

Jerry Buttimer: Deputy Tóibín is embarrassed by what happened last Friday when Sinn Féin got caught out. It is about time that party was exposed for the shallow policies it has pursued for three years of opposition - against nothing, for nothing and standing for nothing.