Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

That is a disgrace. The Government should have targeted the people on €100,000 plus who could afford to pay the money instead of attacking the poor who did not pay tax in the past and are now in the tax net, and the middle classes who are already being squeezed. They are letting the super rich away with it again. Why did the Government not go for those on €100,000 plus and impose a 2% or 3% levy on the people who could afford it, instead of hitting the poor, the weak and the sick?

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