Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

When 46,000 or 48,000 - the Minister of State might confirm that figure - are seeking deferrals, 96% of whom are seeking those deferrals because their income is not sufficient to pay, is it not reasonable to deduce that if that percentage seeking deferrals are doing so because of their low income, that a very high proportion of those who are not complying and have it mandatorily taken from them are doing so because they cannot afford it or have extreme difficulty in paying it?