Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 February 2022

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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That wipes out the discretionary element from a political perspective in that the Minister for Finance could not play around with it. We would be fixing it. That would be the political downside. Is that right?