Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

Does the Minister agree that the expected €1 billion or €1.5 billion which will arise next year from these inquiries should be set aside for capital investment, particularly in areas that would benefit compliant taxpayers who paid their taxes in the 1980s when others were putting their money offshore or into special products to hide it from the tax man? It should be borne in mind that it was the Minister's predecessor and people in the Revenue who argued at the time of the tax marches that there was not a pot of gold in terms of unpaid taxes, yet time and again we have seen evidence of a huge industry of non-compliance regarding the payment of taxes.

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