Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Social Welfare Entitlements for Self-Employed: ISME, SEA and SFA

2:30 pm

Photo of Ray ButlerRay Butler (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

What Mr. Fielding calls an extra tax is a safeguard to provide some security if one’s business goes wrong. I would not call it a tax. If my accountant told me I had to pay 0.25%, or an extra 1.5%, to safeguard my house and put food on the table, I would gladly pay it as a safeguard, not as a tax.

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