Pearse Doherty

Sinn Féin would also abolish the local property tax and instead introduce a second home charge.

The party envisages the €600 charge on 'multi residential property ownership' would raise €342 million in revenue next year.

There's a 12.5% increase in terms of stamp duty for commercial activity, which is trying to divert our workforce away from commercial and into building homes.

Sinn Féin is unapologetic that we will pull all of the levers, including making the investment possible, but also attracting our workforce to building homes.

We will get rid of the landlord tax relief, which also is a crazy idea at this point in time.

We are also clamping down in gold-plated pensions.

The Budget must put ordinary workers and families first and look after the most vulnerable, adding that a proper cost of living package was needed now.

The majority of Irish workers, over a million and a half of them, who you’ve left abandoned in this Budget will get less than €250 in a tax break.

They don't care what you call the tax. All they know is that they are being penalised through the roof in terms of the price of it.

We're going to keep putting the pressure on Government. We still don't know what the Government's going to do.

The upcoming budget risks leaving vulnerable people at further risk.

I don’t want to see them but I will stand with them if the Government refuses to listen and decide to push up the price of petrol and diesel. I believe it is unacceptable and I rightly believe there will be protests if that is the case.

Sinn Féin believes that diesel prices should remain at around €1.90 a litre.

We cannot control the cost of international fuel. But the one thing we can control is how much tax we apply.

The reality is the money is there to do this.

There is no way that Sinn Féin will stand by and allow that to happen when these fuels prices are increased.

I believe it is unacceptable and I rightly believe there will be protests if that is the case.

We're looking for the Government to finally listen and to act, and the only way these increases can be stopped is a recall of the Dáil before 1 September for a financial resolution to be passed.

I think it's deeply disappointing that the Government have come forward with a budgetary package for next year that is smaller than last years, it shows that they're really out of touch and don't understand the pressures ordinary people…

Everybody knows what they're paying at the pumps at the minute, so it will push the price of diesel well above €2, it is simply unacceptable at a time when so many people are feeling the pinch and this cannot go ahead.

The Government in response to the outrage over the cost of excise on petrol and diesel has decided to kick the can down the road, they've made a decision that before the end of the year they will have increased the price of diesel by 34…

The Government must act now to protect people at the pumps by extending these cuts until a review on Budget Day and ensuring that no additional pressure is placed on households already struggling with the cost of living.

There can be no increase in the price of petrol and diesel while the Dáil is in recess and Government ministers are away for their summer break.

Normal business cannot continue