Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

5:40 pm

Photo of Caoimhghín Ó CaoláinCaoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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This would ensure a greater sharing of the weight of all that has befallen us as a people in recent years. High income earners have a responsibility to play a greater role in helping us through these times. Others are shouldering more than they can carry. My consistent position is that those who are on a higher income are entitled to take a greater share of that burden. This amendment is consistent with that logic so I commend it to the committee and the Minister.