Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

No, because we had a very detailed analysis of where the tax system strongly favoured very wealthy people who ended up paying nought to 5% of income tax, whereas a young man or woman just commencing work on a modest salary could actually enter into the tax net at an initial rate of 20%, where as those who entered into the higher rate had, in the proceeding years, actually gained a reduction of seven percentage points.