17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he acknowledges, following the recent publication of The Sunday Times rich list, the TASC report, Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland, and the Credit Suisse report on global wealth, that there is overwhelming evidence of a dramatic concentration and increase in the wealth of the very richest in Irish society; his views on whether a widening gap between rich and poor needs to be remedied with higher taxes on wealth, profits and very high incomes, not simply as a matter of fairness but also because such disparities of wealth represent a serious macroeconomic threat to the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17567/15]

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17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he acknowledges, following the recent publication of The Sunday Times rich list, the TASC report, Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland, and the Credit Suisse report on global wealth, that there is overwhelming evidence of a dramatic concentration and increase in the wealth of the very richest in Irish society; his views on whether a widening gap between rich and poor needs to be remedied with higher taxes on wealth, profits and very high incomes, not simply as a matter of fairness but also because such disparities of wealth represent a serious macroeconomic threat to the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17567/15]

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