Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

What will be the cost to the Exchequer of the proposal to put on a legislative basis the decision to exempt green fees and membership fees in member-owned and non-profit making golf clubs from VAT? Regardless of the decision of the European Court of Justice in the past year, does the Minister really think it is justified, in the context of a fourth regressive budget in a row, people being hammered with further austerity and unable to afford to pay water charges, to give a VAT exemption which will benefit disproportionately the better-off in society?

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