Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am going to press the amendment. It does not call for the introduction for the relief, as the Minister has said, at the standard rate. It calls on the Department to put forward a model that is targeted and tailored.

The Minister and the House will be well aware that at different times during the phasing out of this relief right up to 2011, because the rates then reduced, in certain years it cost €50 million and in others it was higher and so on. On that basis, it is the right use of resources. It is the relief that is required for individuals at this point in time due to the shock they feel in their income and I will, therefore, press the amendment.

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