Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

It may be the case that there are other areas of private debt but this is tax due to the State.

It is appropriate in these times, and indeed at any time, that people who are due to pay their taxes and have adequate income to pay them should do so. There is existing legislation for attachment. The provision is inserted into the overall legislation. The counterbalance to the Revenue Commissioners exists in the courts. There is no question of this involving someone's total income being taken away. I totally refute that here on the floor of this House.