Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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We will lay it out on budget day. We will lay out both the scale of it and how it will be funded. The Deputy is making the point that there are great challenges at the moment and challenges relating to the cost of living are building. I would, therefore, have thought he would welcome a package that tries to protect the take-home pay of workers, particularly low income workers, who might be experiencing increased levels of taxation at a point when they are going back to work. If we are acknowledging that pressures on the cost of living are building, surely measures that try to preserve the take-home pay of workers could contribute to dealing with those challenges that are building in the cost of living.