Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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The Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is considering the constitutional future, including economics, taxation and welfare. Three weeks ago, Dr. Tom Boland and Dr. Ciara Fitzpatrick appeared before that committee. They made the point that we never really sat down and looked at the values that underpinned our tax and welfare system and suggested that there is an opportunity to do so now rather than tweaking bits of what we have inherited. What are the witnesses' thoughts on this suggestion? If there were to be a referendum on constitutional change in five to 15 years' time, what collaboration or contact does the commission have with its counterparts in the North with a view to considering what a future taxation and welfare system would look like?