Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Sure, it can be done through a pension fund, but nonetheless we are now embedding in law a situation that states that a small property investor will pay a range of taxes but a big property investor will not. That is what this is doing. It is just like saying that if a person can open a sweetshop he will pay a range of taxes, but if he can open a €20 million company he will not. Does that seem reasonable?