Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 May 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Finance
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2020
Chapter 16 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Audited Financial Statements of the Exchequer for 2020

9:30 am

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

How do we measure the effect of not reducing excise where people cannot afford to pay because the cost of living has gone above what they can afford to live on? In that case, people's standard of living falls. The cost of living has risen so much that people leave their jobs. Now the Exchequer is paying an increased social welfare bill. How can that be correlated?

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