Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

The marginal rate is quite different from the effective rate, which is in the region of 39% for these individuals. I suggest that, at a time when we are abolishing mobility payments, taking €350 million per year from low paid public sector workers, abolishing exceptional needs payments for needy families and imposing a property tax on households in negative equity or mortgage arrears, individuals on these levels of income should be made to pay their fair share in order to make a reasonable contribution. They are well able to contribute another €1 billion to the Exchequer while remaining very wealthy.

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