Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Politicians may suggest certain actions but we do not have the information available to project the consequences of a certain approach. This amounts to more than just issues of policy. I submitted parliamentary questions that contained a "what if" proposal for getting rid of a tax relief, for example. The answer had an estimate of the yield to the Exchequer, although it was qualified to allow for different scenarios. Surely the Department of Social Protection should be able to do something similar? It is not political to indicate that if a certain action was taken, there would be a particular yield.