Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Capital Investment Plan 2016-2021: Dublin Chamber of Commerce

4:00 pm

Photo of Richard Boyd BarrettRichard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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It is not if we are talking about increasing capital investment because there are only two ways it can be done. One way is through the fiscal rules, on which there is a consensus that we should do something about it vis-à-viscapital investment. There is another mechanism to increase capital investment, namely, to get the big capitalists to pay a bit more tax, to put it bluntly.