Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

-----and it is clear that the tax expenditures contributed to the property bubble. However, the truth is that the love affair with tax incentives continues. As recently as last February, Deputy Bruton, during the under-reported Report Stage of the Finance Bill, tabled an amendment which proposed tax reliefs for general practitioners setting up primary care centres. He did so, I assume, in response to a campaign by general practitioners and a report from the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children which he must have known provided no reasoned case for the various tax incentives it recommended for a sector which is already in receipt of substantial public funding.

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