Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed)

2:00 am

Photo of Mairéad FarrellMairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)
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The disposable income Mr. Nugent is talking about is not the disposable income of one person. Take, for example, my estate, Mervue; he is not saying every single person's disposable income, or the majority of them, are increasing. What he is saying is that if we take everybody and there are very high earners, say-----