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

Not a thing other than to thank the committee very much for allowing me the space to come in. I am wearing a non-political hat in the context of this proposal. A win for me or a win for children would be if the committee, in its own time, was to decide to refer this to the Department and ask if it could examine the principle of this in the context of budget preparations into the future. Perhaps the Committee on Budgetary Oversight could do so also.

I thank the committee again and hope that members in their work, politically or otherwise, might promote the principle of the introduction of the recognition of the costs of raising a child in our taxation system in the same way as we do in our welfare system.