Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----telling them that their property is worth X, and then put them into a corner where they have to employ an auctioneer to carry out an evaluation, the average cost of which is ¤150? Effectively, the Revenue is saying that it will cost people ¤350 but they should get their own valuation which will cost them another ¤150, which it may or may not accept. This process could end up costing people ¤500 when it should only cost about ¤100. It is a disgrace. I plead with the Minister, even at this late stage, to go back to the drawing board because the ordinary people who own property cannot afford it.

Fianna Fáil put forward an alternative budget model in the last election which taxed people earning over ¤100,000. We had it fully costed by the Department of Finance, the Minister of State's Department. It was an alternative budget which would have alleviated the hardship being inflicted by this legislation. I plead with Labour Party and Fine Gael Senators to vote against this Bill. They should stand up for the people of Donegal, and those across Ireland, and for their convictions, and they should not be afraid to go before the people in the next election if they do that.