Paul McGrath (Westmeath, Fine Gael)

It is evident the Minister does not intend to accept Deputy Burton's amendment or mine when I move it later. On Committee Stage he suggested that he would examine the mechanism by which taxpayers are informed of their entitlements, tax credits and so on. Perhaps he would ask the Revenue Commissioners to examine this area with a view to enabling people to easily understand their entitlements and assess their potential liability and be thus more likely to review the amount of tax they are paying and hence seek the refunds we are talking about. Will the Minister reaffirm his commitment to ask some section of Revenue to do that? It would be a step in the right direction, given that he is not prepared to accept these amendments.

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