Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to report to Deputy McConalogue that USC has been reduced in the past two budgets and good progress is being made in that regard. Prior to that, in coalition with the Labour Party, Fine Gael took hundreds of thousands of people out of the USC net. We are making good progress in relieving people of the tax that Fianna Fáil imposed upon them during the crisis. As I indicated approximately a year ago when I was afforded the privilege of being made Taoiseach, it is our intention to merge the USC with PRSI and build up the Social Insurance Fund which we will need in the future, given the growing demands on social insurance and-----

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