Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If one takes St. Vincent de Paul, for example, which does a lot of very valuable work, and has charity shops in most towns around the country, all the resources it raises are for charitable purposes so it defeats the purpose to a certain extent for it to be collecting money, most likely for the local community, to do the work Departments should be doing or are not capable of doing for one reason or another, and we are taking a valuable part of its funding stream by making it liable to pay a certain portion of its income that could be used for a better purpose.