{"id":5295,"date":"2024-09-12T08:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T08:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5295"},"modified":"2024-09-12T08:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T08:06:44","slug":"if-fianna-fail-and-fine-gael-had-their-way-irish-taxpayers-would-be-down-over-e13bn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/if-fianna-fail-and-fine-gael-had-their-way-irish-taxpayers-would-be-down-over-e13bn\/","title":{"rendered":"If Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael had their way, Irish taxpayers would be down over \u20ac13bn"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the final Apple Tax judgement and described as \u201creckless and unforgiveable\u201d the decision by Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael to drag the case through the courts for eight years.<br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThankfully, sanity has prevailed and Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael have been prevented from giving away \u20ac13bn of Irish taxpayers\u2019 money.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe judgement is final, and echoes what Sinn F\u00e9in has said all along that this money is, and always was, due to the state.<br \/><br \/>\u201cWe have witnessed gross recklessness and incompetence from Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael in dragging this case out over the past eight years.<br \/><br \/>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in got this right from the very beginning. If Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael had their way, the state and Irish taxpayers would be down over \u20ac13bn.<br \/><br \/>\u201cYou could not make this up. The parties of government, who lecture fiscal prudence, sought to obstruct more than \u20ac13bn that the state was due.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThis money could have been spent on building homes, employing SNAs, and addressing the very real systemic issues plaguing our public services. <br \/><br \/>\u201cAs part of their bizarre decision to defend a corporation not paying its fair share of tax, the state spent millions on legal fees. <br \/><br \/>\u201cA government that was willing to frustrate over \u20ac13bn from coming into the coffers of the state is not in a position to argue against the investment into the infrastructure and housing our citizens so desperately need.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the final Apple Tax judgement and described as \u201creckless and unforgiveable\u201d the decision by Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael to drag the case through the courts for eight years. Teachta Crowe said: \u201cThankfully, sanity has prevailed and Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5295\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}