Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In this question I ask how the Minister for Finance proposes to lift the tax burden on lower and middle income families to ensure the most vulnerable in society are given a break from it. Usually, I would not table these questions this early in the year or this far out from a budget, but the Minister for Finance, the Taoiseach and other Ministers have gone on many media platforms, both domestically and internationally, to say they intend to widen or increase the threshold for entry to the higher rate of tax. I ask the Minister what consideration he has given to the impact of this proposal on the most vulnerable in society.

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