Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

For a fella who has taken the guts of half a decade to bring forward a tax that will not apply for another year and a bit, the Minister has not even got a sense in his own head of what the objectives of this are with regard to any measurement. The argument was put forward that the Minister has done nothing about this for years - until the last year really - because he wants to get it right and all the rest, but the Minister does not have a measurement for what he actually wants to achieve. This is the problem here. The Minister is introducing a tax that, in my view, is not set at the right levels and does not increase year on year. Therefore, there is no way to measure the Government's success on this. What are the targets?