Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I will submit the parliamentary questions. However, we are at Committee State of legislation that the Minister is tabling and it is reasonable for me to ask whether he currently knows. My assumption is the Minister does not know. I appreciate he will go and find the answer.

My concern is that the Minister is proposing legislation, which will tax people and which will send €100 cheques all over the country, and he does not know, at Committee Stage of the Bill, the net financial impact of that. If he cannot give us figures, can he confirm to the House that he does not know the net financial effect of charging people, the cost of charging them, including the caveat from Deputy Shortall, and the cost of sending them all €100 cheques? It is relevant for us to know whether the Government has even worked out the net financial effect of charging people and sending €100 cheques around the country. I would like to know whether or not the Minister knows and if he even can answer the question on Committee Stage of the Bill.

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