Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

How is that going to help with the challenges we have regarding the safety of our public finances and keeping jobs in Ireland if we are going to tax them more and more? Of course we need to diversify our economy. Of course we need to ensure we have more sources of growth in our jobs market but it should be noted that we have never had more people at work in Ireland and the public finances are in surplus, which is due to the fact that we have a variety of different employers in our country, all of whom are contributing to the creation of jobs and our tax revenues.

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