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

The fallacy in the Deputy's argument is in the fact that the Government is not committing to reduce the tax take - it is committing to reduce tax rates. We will collect more taxes and the projections for taxes for the next years show that each year the tax take will increase. Within the envelope of additional taxes it is quite affordable to remove an emergency tax-----

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