Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The policy instrument available to me to assist the so-called squeezed middle is the taxation system. I have outlined for the Deputy what I have done in terms of income tax and USC reductions through the budget. I also said in my Budget Statement that I would follow the same line of policy in the next budget, subject to the availability of resources to do so.

The Deputy has raised many issues which are not in the same space. While very important, many of them are the responsibility of other Ministers. The Deputy has material for a series of parliamentary questions.

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