Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Pre-Budget Discussion: Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection
12:40 pm
Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Plus 9,000 non-Republic of Ireland residents. The letters will be sent in the coming weeks. The reviews will take place before the end of the year, with an expectation of making one lump sum payment and then continuing weekly with the new pension payment, to be backdated to March this year.
On the fiscal space of €800 million, members are aware that any Government can increase taxes in ways it sees fit. What I will be very interested in hearing is where the Deputy suggests we should increase rates of taxation or provide for new increases or new taxation measures.