David Norris (Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are told the property tax will be a local tax that will go back into the local economy. Who believes that? It is a load of rubbish because we are already paying for these services. We pay for refuse, the roads through car tax, and now we will be paying for water. What is left? It is a tissue of nonsense. This is wrong, stupid and immoral and I am making up a checklist and will add to it every time the Government does something I regard as wrong and immoral, a checklist of what we are expected to celebrate for the centenary of 1916, our glorious revolution: soup kitchens, children in the little hedge schools being told to jump up and down to keep warm because there is no heating, evictions, and now people being financially punished for improving their homes. To add to the insult, the most un-Irish measure of all, people's neighbours are being induced by monetary reward to inform on them. Where is the spirit of Michael Davitt and James Fintan Lalor?