Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed)

3:40 pm

Ms Michelle Murphy:

Regarding the symptoms of the pressures we have been seeing, we published a poverty briefing in June that detailed increased levels of poverty, including child poverty, and financial stress, with the highest stress levels experienced by those on the lowest incomes who have lost the most. The social infrastructure has also been eroded across the country.

My first recommendation is to implement our two proposals on social housing which are contained in our budget choices document. My second recommendation is to implement a minimum effective corporation tax rate of 6%.

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