Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

It is important the gap does not widen. The thrust of Government policy has been to ensure people on low wages are brought up to speed and, in addition, that the tax burden for people on low wages continues to be decreased. The Deputy can take it that it is Government policy that this should continue. That is the position regarding the current talks, in addition to a desire to further decrease taxation and take more people out of the tax net in the forthcoming budget.

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