Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 November 2016

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed)

10:00 am

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

This is an example of there being one law for the rich - in this case, big business - and another for ordinary workers. An ordinary person cannot claim that because he or she had large debts in one year that cost him or her a fortune, the amount of tax paid the following year should be reduced.

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