94 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Finance if he accepts that the inappropriate fiscal and economic policies that he has pursued, and specifically the role played by property based tax breaks in distorting investment decision making and feeding the plain vanilla property bubble, are highlighted in both the Honohan and Regling-Watson reports on the banking crisis here; if he accepts that the ongoing cost of these property based tax breaks are, as identified by him in a parliamentary reply last year, in the order of €440 million per annum; if he further accepts that the role of property based tax breaks, and other tax breaks targeted at wealthy individuals, should be included for consideration by the proposed commission of investigation into the banking collapse here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25969/10]

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94 Deputy Joan Burton asked the Minister for Finance if he accepts that the inappropriate fiscal and economic policies that he has pursued, and specifically the role played by property based tax breaks in distorting investment decision making and feeding the plain vanilla property bubble, are highlighted in both the Honohan and Regling-Watson reports on the banking crisis here; if he accepts that the ongoing cost of these property based tax breaks are, as identified by him in a parliamentary reply last year, in the order of €440 million per annum; if he further accepts that the role of property based tax breaks, and other tax breaks targeted at wealthy individuals, should be included for consideration by the proposed commission of investigation into the banking collapse here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25969/10]

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