Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion

10:55 am

Dr. Seán Healy:

We have done that. We are very careful about this. Job creation is the critical issue for us, the same as it is for the Deputy. What we are trying to do is to increase employment. As we have pointed out, without investment there will be no jobs and without jobs there will be no recovery. We need jobs, but they are not coming forth on the scale required to get us out of this mess any time soon.

To return to the other elements, we would increase tax on online gambling, which would yield €100 million. We would standard-rate the tax break on all pension contributions-----

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