Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2020-12-11
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Paul Gavan (SF), Labour Panel

The difficulty is this: Members across the Chamber and the Minister of State's Department have acknowledged that this is a regressive tax. What we are asking for is a report to exactly show how regressive it is and who it is failing most in terms of unfairness. If the Minister of State is serious about ring-fencing funds and making sure they go to the people who most need them, that can only be done if we find out who has been the hardest hit. By calling for this report, we are asking him to do that. I cannot see why he would object to it.

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Sitting date: 2020-12-11