Making Work Pay

As more jobs are created, we will ensure that work pays more than welfare, and that hard work and entrepreneurship are better rewarded. By the end of 2020, we will abolish the USC as part of our Long Term Economic Plan to keep the recovery going.

If re-elected we will:
 

• Abolish the USC, with measures to limit the benefits for high earners. This will cut the maximum tax rate for middle income families to 44%, from the 52% rate introduced by Fianna Fáil.
   
• Complete the equalisation of the tax system for the self-employed by 2018.
   
• Double housing output to 25,000 per year by 2020 to contain the cost of housing for working families.
   
• Introduce a new Working Family Payment designed to ensure that every parent working 15 hours or more per week takes home at least €11.75 per hour.
   
• Extend free GP to all children.
   
• Make childcare more affordable including a second free pre-school year.