Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)

-----on trade union subscriptions, never did we have greater need for reliefs on such subscriptions, which should be at the lower rate of tax. At a time when the Government will reduce the minimum wage and employers will use it as a guise to drive down wages, I cannot understand how any party that claims to be on the left would support such a measure as getting rid of union tax reliefs.

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