Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The elected Government considers all the advice and all the issues and then makes policy decisions. On the issue of deadweight, the Deputy should look at some of his own proposals. For example, he wants to get rid of the local property tax. Where is the deadweight in removing a charge from many people who are well able to afford to pay it? Where is the deadweight in the Deputy's proposal that people with €1 million mortgages should get mortgage interest relief, for example, from the taxpayers?

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