Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)

In the current context if Deputies want to participate in a movement for change on this tax, they should participate in and submit proposals to the review. Proposals cannot be one sided. Everybody knows what people are against. I ask the parties and Deputies opposite to include with their proposals alternative suggestions for raising the tax foregone, possibly along the lines of the suggestion made by Deputy Boyd Barrett.

On Deputy Lenihan's question, the terms of reference of the review are being considered and have not yet been drafted. I will consider his comments on the consolidation of PRSI in the universal social charge and ascertain whether his suggestion is a runner.

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