Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We all agree that we want to see an increase in the minimum wage. Anyone on the minimum wage would want to see that. We are speaking on the Finance Bill and the everyday impact it will have on people. It is important to raise the difficulties that people face with the increase in costs and inflation.

What happened to the plan to abolish the USC? The Minister can correct me if I am mistaken that he is on the record, as is the Tánaiste, saying that he wanted to merge USC with PRSI. Has that been officially dropped? Have we missed something?