Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Briefly, I want to keep the focus on those on middle incomes, the middle four deciles of people on average incomes, because for many years they felt they were not getting the benefit of various budgets. I am anxious that any taxation measures or changes are of benefit to them. This is especially important if there are changes to their income. We do not want to see small cost-of-living related improvements moving them into a higher tax bracket. I want to keep the focus on them and ask the Minister to make every effort to ensure that indexing benefits them.

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