Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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If we were to draw a curve of the number of people in receipt of an allowance and the cash value of the allowance - perhaps we should do this as part of our report - we would find the high value allowances which lots of people are drawing and then it would tail off and leave a very long tail of lots of allowances that only a few people claim, like many of those here. That long tail is where much of the difficulty lies. It creates a perception among taxpayers and those who comment on this that a very large amount of allowances are being claimed. However, they are being claimed by very few people. Is there not an alternative way of tackling something like, for example, the kango money allowance?