Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

I am pointing out the reason we need more time to debate the Bill. These are the types of issues the House needs to be debate but we will not have an opportunity to do so. The Minister for Finance stated that those on the new national minimum wage will not be brought into the tax net. On page C30 of the budgetary documentation, we are informed that the universal social charge, which will apply to the national minimum wage, is a tax.

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