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- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Not a bit of relief.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----with the cost of living in so many ways. We called on the Government to tackle this, to deliver a fair tax package for all workers and to give workers and families a break. We said they needed their money put back into their pockets. What the Government has instead brought forward again in this budget is a two-tier tax package. It picked winners and it picked losers. Someone on...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is not true.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach also knows it. That is half of all workers in the State. The tax package for half of all workers in the State will be €369. There was a fairer way to do this. In our budget proposals, Sinn Féin showed how the Government could have cut tax fairly in a way that benefits all workers, including those on low and middle incomes. That is what it should have done. We...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It is better to have our small businesses.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Ireland has one of the highest rates of low pay in the European Union. That did not happen by accident. It happened as a result of Government policy. We would support businesses' transition from lower wage employment with a PRSI rebate of €250 million targeted at the employers most impacted by increases to the minimum wage. The Minister did not say anything about gold-plated...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: I did not sign the contract. Produce the contract.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The cost has overrun by hundreds of millions. Are you trying to deny you had any involvement in that, Simon? Is that what you are trying to say?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: You just said I signed the contract.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Is that what you are trying to say, that you had no involvement in that?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Ouch.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: All the while, on the Taoiseach's watch, the Bill goes up. When BAM said it would withdraw-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Do you remember your proposal?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: -----Deputy Harris said "No way, keep going" and he kept writing the cheques.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: Do you remember your proposal?
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Almost a million people-----
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: It was to stop it and not build.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Are you finished, Taoiseach? Almost a million people are on waiting lists. We have all been waiting. We have been waiting for this Government to get its act together but it has not happened and is not going to happen. It is becoming harder and harder for ordinary workers to see a GP. Dental treatment for people with medical cards has collapsed. Mental health services in this State are...
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: No, you would not.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We called on the Government to deliver 21,000 social and affordable homes in the budget and 100% redress for those living with defective blocks in Celtic tiger apartments. Not one penny more has been provided for those schemes, despite them being expanded. For regeneration of inner-city flat complexes and those communities that have been waiting for decades, there is nothing from this...