David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I call for a debate on alternative budgets. I called for it last year and I believe we should have had it again this year. It is not too late because we are sitting tomorrow and on Monday. It would also be important to discuss the National Recovery Plan 2011-2014, because that national recovery plan was drafted by the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government. It was signed off on by the then Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin. That national recovery plan included a property tax, water charges, reductions in front-line staff in the public sector, increases in third and fourth level education fees and cuts to social welfare payments.