Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage

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

I revert to the point I made about Portugal. Portugal is making employers who have more than ten employees pay towards that. Is that something the Minister has looked at? Is he aware that this might be the situation in other jurisdictions? Has he looked at that potentially as something we could have here? Again, it is interesting to tease this out. Some employers will be saving huge amounts of money because they will not have to pay the rent etc. for massive office buildings in big city centre locations across Galway, Dublin, Limerick etc. It would be interesting to see if there is a way of including employers in those large companies who are doing better of out of this working from home situation. Many employees of course are happy to work from home. However, it would be interesting to see whether there is a way of including bigger employers in this as well. Has the Minister looked at that or considered it? That would be interesting to know.

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