Refund the stamp duty. Then I’ll pay.

They agreed to it with the IMF. So in effect, they tied the hands of the Govt. after them. They ensured that there was going to be a property tax.

Whatever any other party would do or thinks about this tax, does not matter, as FF agreed to this as part of the Troika deal. It is as FF as a picture of Dev.

Actually Fianna Fáil have always been against a Property Tax. Here’s an article from 2009 when still in government given the opinion of party TD’s back then. Nothing has changed. It’s not signed and sealed in any Troika agreement either. A convenient FG/Labour go to move when ever theey make an unpopular and wrong decision. The electorate aren’t buying this excuse any longer. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/angry-ff-tds-say-property-tax-is-totally-unworkable-1867337.html

@ Eoin: Funny how Brian Lenihan’s name appears on the necessary documents agreeing to the bailout and to a property tax then:

http://www.imf.org/external/np/loi/2010/irl/120310.pdf

Your link is an example of FF TD’s trying to be in opposition and government at the same time i.e. cute hoorism.

Ryan, find me a link to where these TD’s voted for a Property Tax to be established and your accusation of “cute hoorism” would be substantiated. Otherwise, it just comes off as typical anti-FF hyperbole.

‘They try’ >>>> before first word of comment…..ie They try tabling …..

Agreedhendrix.
Before you read my comment watch this video of fianna fail extravagance and delirium. Bankers bag men! http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s8T0Q03oJSc

They are slick but they are also deceitful and will do anything to get a vote. That includes claiming to be republican, practising catholics, grass roots fianna failers. Theyve repositioned themselves in the long grass. Now they are just waiting to strike.

Just wondering if the families from Priory Hall, Donaghmede paid the residential ‘registeration’ tax. Seeing as they have no home, not worth a damn and living in rental accommodation for the past year!

Not one politician in the Dail has stepped forward to take on this awful situation these families find themselves in. Shame. I hope none of them paid it.

You’ll vote for them again and then mention you are on the breadline.

You’d have no trouble being on the breadline again in 10-15 years time, when they rob and break the country to pieces once more. This is not the first time that FF have done this.

God help you Figo but you must get a kick out of being driven down in to the mud.

I find it genuinely scary that people are stupid enough to vote for the party that had visited decades of ruin on the country.
It is possible that we will never fully recover from the mess we are in, the mess that FF created. They should be outlawed for crimes of treason.

And what about this government paying the bond holders? That’s a crime against the old, poor and the sick in this country.

Do two wrongs make a right these days?

FF is a rotten and corrupt organisation that destroyed this nation. I’m no fan of the current bunch of cowardly clock-punchers but they are not guilty of the crimes that FF committed.

I agree it is a crime but FF are fully behind that and indeed Lenihan and friends started that. FF are just an even more bent and treacherous version of FG, that is the only difference between them. The current Govt. are a sham but even in their worst day they would still be better than FF, that is not a compliment to them.

Well maybe politics should be about policies. I note that FF are against this tax (despite having signed Ireland up for it) and yet have not proposed an alternative policy.