Brexit (Foreign Affairs): Statements
Dail Éireann — 2021-01-21
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Simon Coveney (FG), Cork South-Central

I do not have a precise answer to that but I will get one for the Deputy. Part of the budgetary process in Ireland is to ensure that there is fairness and equity as part of how we put budgets together, whether that is the taxation system, social welfare system, equality issues or housing issues, and so any budget that we put together has to be shaped by that. The new realities of life are that Brexit will shape elements of our economy in the way Covid-19 has done. The straight answer to the Deputy's question is "Yes" but I do not have the detail of the measurement tool in terms of how it operates.

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Sitting date: 2021-01-21