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7 April 2015

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Labour's Property Tax cap comments an 'attempt to buy back votes'

Councillor Kathleen Funchion

COMMENTS by senior members of the Labour Party on the possibility of capping the unfair Local Property Tax (LPT) have been dismissed as nothing more than a feeble attempt to buy back votes.

Responding to comments by Tánaiste Joan Burton that a cap may be introduced on the LPT, Sinn Féin Carlow-Kilkenny by-election candidate Kathleen Funchion noted that at council level the Labour Party has opposed even modest reductions in the charge:

"This talk of capping the Property Tax is coming from a party whose leadership figures have indicated that it is okay to break election promises," she said.

"We are now clearly at the start of the run-in to a general election. The Labour Party, after four years of administering brutal austerity and cuts, are beginning what will be a process of desperately attempting to buy back votes from ordinary people - the very people they abandoned, time and again, throughout their term in government."

Councillor Funchion said she expected the Government to produce many similar "sweeteners" in coming weeks as they attempt to cling to power "in the hope that people will simply forget all the hardship to which they have been subjected."

Hitting out at the Labour Party's subservient attitude to Fine Gael and its willing participation in the implementation of right-wing, regressive policies, she committed:

"The Sinn Féin position is clear. In government, we will abolish the Property Tax."

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