Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)

That is the implication I am picking up and has been the theme followed through by many on the Government benches. If one considers this model and the associated circumstance in which young families are being brought up at arm's length, there is an obvious need for incentives that will protect the idea of family within the setting of a family home and protect the care needs of families as far as possible within the local community.

I hope the Minister will respond to these amendments positively but also consider how better alternatives can be put in place. I accept the Minister shares government with some who have a more radical view of society in that they see it as a marketplace. However, the Minister has a role to play in recognising that the tax system can be used in an imaginative way to protect and enhance the idea of family and community and the care of all generations in as far as possible in the same place and at the same time.

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