Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I agree. The public who are watching, if they are watching, see these funny arguments between Fianna Fáil and Sinn Féin, but the real thing is that the Government promised that it would abolish the universal social charge. Abolish means finito, gone, not tinkering around with the bands and raising them a bit and everything else. The Minister's party made the promise in its manifesto and made a commitment in the programme for Government that it would abolish it. How can they now have credibility when they move someone on €45,000 out of it? It is not a fair, level tax, because people on higher incomes can get more relief from it than ordinary working people. Where is the credibility?

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