Finance Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-11-06
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Paul Gavan (SF), Labour Panel

I move recommendation No. 1:
In page 10, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:
“Report on Universal Social Charge
3. The Minister shall, within 3 months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on removing the Universal Social Charge from the first €45,000 a person earns.”.
I will move through these as quickly as I can because many of them are common sense and self-explanatory. This amendment calls for a report on the universal social charge, specifically that the Minister would, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann a report on removing the universal social charge from the first €45,000 a person earns. It is to establish what the actual cost of that proposal would be and speaks very much to the points I and Senator Boyhan made, that the proposals from the Government are fundamentally unfair and this is the way we should go. A report on this topic would bear out the points we are trying to make.

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Sitting date: 2024-11-06