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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Would the Taoiseach like the floor to answer the question?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Government lost the referendum.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Why is the carer's allowance means test change not available to them in January and why did the Government single them out as the only category of people who must wait a further six months? It is disrespectful to carers and the work they do. As I said, what needed to be done here was an announcement of the abolition of the means test. This would really make a meaningful difference in the...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: No.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----and workers and families cannot afford another five years of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. Every day this Government is in office, it squanders valuable time.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It also, however, squanders taxpayers' money. Even though he is in charge of the OPW, it was interesting that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, did not mention during his 45-minute speech any of the projects the Government is wasting millions on, including the bike shed, the national children's hospital, the security hut and houses for Ukrainians that have seen a 120% increase. Yet the...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Let us pass this budget first.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Today is the day this Government will try to buy the Irish citizens with their own money. Its desperation to cling onto power permeates this budget. Ministers queue up to clap themselves in the back for divvying out the spoils to the electorate to persuade them to turn a blind eye to how they have been failed, how their families have been failed and how their communities have been failed....

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I would not mention child welfare.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----but, when we look at delivery, the Government again falls short. Key to supporting families is the availability of affordable childcare. Sinn Féin has shown how childcare could be delivered at €10 a day. That would have been a game-changer for families but the Government would not go there. This could be delivered next year for all parents in centre-based childcare and...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: How is your press office? When did you know, Pearse?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The public will have their opportunity to decide if they want a party-----

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Do not bring up children in here today.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Pearse Doherty: -----with real vision, ideas, plans and commitment or the soundbites we hear from Government benches. Sinn Féin knows that the cost of raising a family does not stop when your child reaches the age of 18. We would stand up for students and parents by abolishing third level fees, starting with a reduction of €1,500 next year. Again, the Government refuses to go there. It...

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...