Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion

3:30 pm

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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IBEC claims this would cost €130 million. This goes to what TASC has stated, which is broadly in line with that the Department states, that only 18% of employees in the State would benefit from either of those proposals. Why would IBEC like to confer €500 million of a tax reduction on 18% of the workforce and confer nothing on the other 82% of the workforce?