Gerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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Everyone is very welcome. Like Deputy Doherty and unlike some others, I am hugely supportive and appreciative of the work that the Commission on Taxation and Welfare has done. I am also hugely appreciative of the range of very informed recommendations and propositions contained in the final report, which will hugely valuable to us as policymakers as we try to address some of the very clear challenges that some legislators appear to underappreciate or underestimate in terms of the scale.

When it was undertaking its work, the commission did not have the benefit of the recent stability programme update report that indicated enormous corporation tax windfall receipts over the next three to four years. Had the commission the benefit of that information, would it have altered its work in any way or the nature of its recommendations?