Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage

5:20 pm

Photo of Michael NoonanMichael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Before the Finance Act the liability is estimated at €1 billion on the tax relief. It is moving sums. The closest correlation is between being employed or unemployed for accessing private health insurance. The fact that today’s CSO figures show 58,000 extra people net in jobs over the 12-month period would suggest that the insurance market will potentially go up.