Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Forthcoming ECOFIN Council: Minister for Finance

5:15 pm

Photo of Pat RabbittePat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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It is not quite right of Deputy Tóibín to say that the Government narrowed the tax base. I ask the Minister whether it is in fact the case that the Government has broadened the tax base. The takings from USC will be somewhat less for obvious reasons.