Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Any tax regime has to have a moral base. I do not accept that we can waive fairness for some perceived pragmatic gain. I do not know how, when people who are on lower incomes are battered with taxes and are struggling as a result, the Minister of State can justify people on extraordinarily high earnings getting further tax breaks. Many people might also ask why these executives could not be sourced from inside the country. Are there not people here who might take the jobs? Is it the case that one executive coming here will result in a whole firm coming here? There is not much evidence to back up what the Minister of State is saying and there is certainly not much fairness in these measures. I do not think one can have one tax policy for the poor or for the struggling and another tax policy for the super-rich. It is just not fair. Therefore, I am against it.