Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Will the Minister explain why there is a further reduction in the number of days? When the measure was originally introduced it was 60 days, then it was 40 days and now it is proposed to go to 30 days. This is quite a difference. The more fundamental point is that I have not heard any evidence, or any basis upon which to develop the evidence, to say that this scheme works with regard to increasing exports or that it is not just a tax expenditure to a certain number of people who happen to work in these countries for a period of days, and that the scheme has no particular benefit to society.