Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The two-year exemption from income tax for new start-up businesses will not cost the Government any money. Clearly the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, has never been engaged in trying to set up a business or he would know that.

Sadly, the general thrust of the budget is similar to its two predecessors. This Government has been in power for two and a half years and one would not need to be a rocket scientist to figure out that it has not worked in the best interests of the people at all times. In fact, it has created and promoted a programme of fiscal policies that is making our society more unequal, unjust and unsustainable.

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