Employment Support Services
Dail Éireann — 2024-09-24
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Denis Naughten (IND), Roscommon-Galway

I commend the initiative. Someone on a disability allowance payment can receive up to €165 per week in employment. That is the incentive provided under the initiative. My concern is that once people go over that threshold, they will be taxed at 50%. The wealthiest people in this country are not taxed at 50% but we are taxing people on disability allowance who go out to work. They include, for example, people with intellectual disabilities and so forth. If they earn more than €165 a week, we will tax them at 50%. I want to see this penal taxation of earnings up to €375 reviewed and reduced.

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Sitting date: 2024-09-24