Dáil debates
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Leaders' Questions
3:00 pm
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
This is about poverty and inequality in this country, it is not about Europe and the debt crisis. The figures I quoted to the Taoiseach on the top income earners are 2012 figures provided by the Department of Finance. They also show, for example, that the top 10% of earners earned €29.5 billion in total income last year. They have average earnings of €136,000 per year and they are paying an effective tax rate of only 24%.
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