Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Just a point of clarification, is the Deputy making a comparison of our rates of employer PRSI as opposed to those in other countries across the EU? To make that comparison, would we not need a similar comparison of workers' rates of PRSI? The employer and the employee pay PRSI. What is important is the combined amount. That comparison would be useful but we would need a comparison of both and not just the employer. Employers' PRSI is low here by international standards, about which there is no doubt.