Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

First, the Deputy approaches this debate from an interesting perspective, whereby he does not seem to think the tax rates and toolkits we have, and the various incentives and initiatives that successive Governments in this country have put in place over a lengthy period, which has been part of the success of our industrial policy, matter in terms of creating jobs and substance and therefore that we should just wind down the Department of Finance and it should effectively be some sort of Robin Hood system whereby one takes in a bit of tax and one gives it out.