Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

Amusing anecdotes can be resumed later on in the bar. However, they are not relevant to who is covered by this legislation. Can the Minister tell the House if it is people who pay the income pension levy and only them? Can the Minister get a formula from his departmental officials? If they were able earlier to correct the Minister of State, Deputy Pat Carey's speech, they must be able to give us a definitive formula at this stage. The Minister of State, Deputy Mansergh, is asking us to pass legislation, yet we do not know the full scale of its import.

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