Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I asked Mr. Coffey, who is our economic expert and rapporteur, for the effective tax rate for the average worker in this country. Most cleaning ladies would probably earn less than the average. Let us take the average worker who pays 25% of his or her income in tax as against the effective tax rate for the corporations for whom the cleaning lady works.

I would argue that the corporations that cleaning lady works for pay well below the 12.5% but even if it were 12.5%, could any fair person describe that as fair or just?