Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Tax Relief on Trade Union Subscriptions: Fórsa
3:00 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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Thankfully, the number of trade union members has increased in the past year although it dipped sharply over a number of years prior to that. The cost of €26 million was based on a trade union membership of 511,000 rather than the current membership of 437,000. In that context, a cost of €26 million is probably on the high end given that it was based on a larger membership.