Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)

This is an expansion of it but we do not know the cost of this measure. The Department is warning the Minister of the spiralling costs of the business relief, yet what we have on foot of that is an expansion of it. We have seen the business relief has grown by 215% in the past five years. We have seen the cost per claim has grown by 178%. It has gone from €85 million in 2016 up to €430 million in the last year we have data for, which was last year. In the context of the warnings in the tax strategy paper of spiralling costs, does the Minister intend to do anything about those costs or is that just something he is content with?