Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What is the answer from a fiscal and taxation point of view, bearing in mind the philosophical, equity, certainty and collectability to those questions that were very fairly put, and would show leadership in the country in order that the other heavy lifting among the hard-pressed middle, lower middle classes and homeless people could be borne?

We are in it together. What is the fiscal response to that? I do not think there is any.

There is so much labyrinthine complexity to the way tax is assessed that it has become a mystery in order to create the arbitrage, which is hugely profitable to the professionals who live off it - lawyers, tax lawyers and tax accountants. I am one of them. I put my hand up.