Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry

9:30 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have not. Obviously, there is a range of secondary benefits, especially the medical card, that many of us would argue need to be addressed. We did not include SUSI qualification. Senator Conway-Walsh will see in the other tables we included quite a number of secondary benefits in the analysis. For example, we include FIS. We did not include eligibility for SUSI grants but how SUSI is allocated is something we should focus on in any event. It is a good, reasonable question. I would not like to complicate a support such as this for children with a flaw in the eligibility criteria for SUSI, for example, where I am sure there are issue - we all have come across them.

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