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Fair taxation is a just demand, and unlike Labour, in government we will damn well implement it

76 views · Published 11 June 2013 · 5:33 · Indexed 29 October 2026

Channel: Sinn Féin · 2013 · News & Politics

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin speaking on the Property Tax Repeal Bill 2013

The hardship endured by masses of people in this State as a result of the economic collapse caused by Fianna Fáil is now being compounded by the failed but ongoing policy of austerity imposed by this Fine Gael/Labour Government.

The sharp end of that austerity policy as now experienced by people the length and breadth of the country is the so-called Property Tax which is really a Family Home Tax. The Taoiseach and the Tánaiste and their respective parties are on record as opposing this form of blanket tax which takes no account of ability to pay. They have now left that opposition behind them, discarded in the same dustbin of history where the Labour Party threw its posters proclaiming 'Protect Child Benefit -- Vote Labour'.

Now the spin from Government is that this tax on the family home is great for local government. That is pure baloney.

Minister Hogan is delivering a double blow to local government and local democracy. He has cut funding for local government and he is pushing ahead with a plan to abolish town councils and to drastically cut the number of councillors without giving back any real powers to Councils or to the communities they represent.

People are being forced to pay this unjust Family Home Tax at the very time their local government services are being cut back.

Fair taxation is a just demand, and unlike Labour, in government we will damn well implement it

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