Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

Yes. I am finishing with this sentence. What I have to say also applies to what was the Economic Research Institute but became the Economic and Social Research Institute. Frankly, it is past time that we had rigorous examinations of the social consequences. The issue should not be the yield in terms of tax foregone, but people should be invited to pay their tax in social solidarity to make a contribution to creating employment. That is the thinking we need. The notion that the world moves on the motivation of profit and the acquisition of wealth is as dead as the dodo, but unfortunately not before it has brought about horrific consequences.

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