Jack Chambers
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860 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Jack Chambers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they're all the measures that we're examining.
and prioritising for the budget again to support working families who want to see something back in the budget and we've got a package of 8.5 billion euro which is significant and gives once there's prioritisation within government and there's a drive towards better efficiencies and savings and ultimately the more we drive better efficiencies the more space we have to develop new measures as well.
So obviously there is a significant gap between Category A and Category B, which is what you've referenced, where relatives are in Category B. I think we need to seriously consider inheritance tax in the context of what's available in the tax package.
Bridging the difference is a significant tax expenditure cost, though.
And I have to be honest about that.
To bridge the gap would be a very significant intervention.
But it is about using the budgetary process over a series of years to, again, shield some of that from the next generation where someone wants to hand something over.
And I think that's the context in which we're examining this.
But to completely bridge the gap
It would have a very significant tax expenditure cost and would eat into what's available from an income tax perspective.
But we are examining inheritance tax and we are listening to the concerns of those whom we've had on the programme and there's a significant campaign behind this as well.
Well, I would say, first of all, we've a package announced, Minister Cleary announced 48 million on the back to school footwear and clothing allowance earlier on in the summer.
And we've expanded that.
There's 37,000 additional children who are eligible for that in 2026.
And that's in the context as well of, if you look over the last number of years, we've introduced free school books.
many children with as well with free school meals through the school year so we've had significant interventions by government supporting the affordability of families going to school and look we you know it's the wider measures in the context of the budget that I've described how do we give people back something and for example in 2027 in terms of their income tax package to help with the cost of going to school but the
You know, some of the wider measures there, like I know there's been a debate on this earlier on in the summer.
Minister for Education is clear in terms of digital devices that it shouldn't be mandatory.
And she's sent that very directly to schools that they should be.
There's the ICT grant, which is there to support the reuse of digital devices within schools, for example.
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