Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Commission refers to growth-friendly fiscal consolidation. We hear the term time and again. During the budget, the Minister for Finance and other senior Ministers referred to how reducing the tax rate at the highest level would create so many jobs over so many years. Is it the case that an investment or social transfer of equal value would create the same amount of jobs? Has any analysis been done in that area?