Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am absolutely not wrong. The Minister will not give an accurate figure for the number of taxpayers who will not benefit from his marginal tax rate measure because it does not exist. We have loads of ideas regarding personal taxation. We have argued about those who are paying higher levels of tax. We also believe more people should be exempt from USC and that tax credits should be afforded to 300,000 families who are paying sky-high rents because of the Government's policies.

We are talking today about how we do what other countries are doing to reduce energy bills for families. That is an example. Why do we not do as other countries have done, and suggested, and provide that type of rebate to the energy companies on the basis that they cut energy prices? That is an idea. I have given the Minister loads of other ideas. He has not addressed one of them.

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