Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

Question 90: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce changes to income tax rates, bands or credits, for 2012. [17011/11]

Michael Noonan (Minister, Department of Finance; Limerick City, Fine Gael)

The Programme for Government states that as part of the Government’s fiscal strategy we will maintain the current rates of income tax together with bands and credits. The Taoiseach recently reiterated this commitment.