Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Is it not part of an architecture of tax reliefs that, as the latest revenue figures indicate, the 11,000 highest earners in this country pay an effective tax rate of only 29%? This is simply a way of protecting the rich from taxes, while ordinary working people are being crucified with levies, charges and cuts. Does the Minister think it is appropriate that a Minister should benefit from such reliefs when he is so well paid?

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