Dr. Tom Boland:

Our economy is very peculiar in Ireland, inasmuch as we have a great deal of redistribution and a great number of people on low wages in the tax system. We have a lot of people in jobs on the minimum wage or below the living wage who contribute little to no tax. Our activation system is kitted out to make more and more of that happen. Since it does not benefit the Exchequer very much, perhaps that is not the kind of growth that we need to pursue.