Dan Boyle (Green Party)

We are taking an income reduction of 5% because of the PRSI changes, but that is largely seen as cosmetic.

Some 90% of the measures contained in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010 are positive and correct. They counterbalance most of the negative reaction to budget 2011 and the EU-IMF package. I hope that, rather than having a late night debate at the end of a long Seanad session, we will give the Bill the priority it deserves. As of now, we have lacked such equality in our debates.