Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The increase of the threshold to €50,000 and interest having gone right up there means we are not comparing like with like over time, but it is a big increase. The Minister mentioned that the list will become smaller and he talked about the benefits of that happening. I am not sure if I buy into that suggested benefit of tax defaulters being a little more worried because the list will be smaller and they will be more prominently named in it. I do not think that is what is going to happen here. If this took effect today, what percentage of people would come off the list? Would it be reduced by a quarter or a third? I am asking for a guesstimate, but the Revenue may have done that already.