Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Finance Bill 2013: Committee Stage
12:20 pm
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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If somebody like a civil servant or a schoolteacher goes on maternity leave she gets the benefit and her full wages. She is liable to whatever tax applies on her full wages and at the standard rate or the marginal rate on maternity benefit. She still has more income.