Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We had that debate before and it highlighted that there were difficulties regarding the selection process. Let us leave that aside for another day. The primary principle of this legislation is to support risk equalisation, as the Minister stated, but it is doing the opposite because of the other policies being pursued. If the Minister came in here and said he would increase the levy but had got the Minister for Finance to reverse his decision to cap tax relief on families who already find it difficult to pay their private health insurance premiums-----

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