Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

How can anybody justify cutting the corporation tax rate and having the North now joining the race to the bottom where corporations that make significant profits will pay less tax while at the same time we will have cuts in social welfare and cuts affecting those on disability? According to the Northern Ireland Department for Social Development, 25% of those currently on disability living allowance will not receive anything under the new personal independence payment and 33% of them will have a reduced award. How can this be justified? Is it not merely an austerity assault on the poor of the same sort that did such damage to people in the South?

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