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Kel Galavan

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Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

And that is quite a good thing, actually, for Irish people in the grand scheme of things.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

But we can break that down.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

And it's looking like it might follow either an ISA model that the UK might have or the Swedish model, which is basically you put money in and you leave it there for X amount of time, but it is invested in the stock market.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

So we don't know exactly what that will look like yet.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

But the benefit is the incentivized tax.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

Now, incentivized tax can mean a lot of things.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

But looking at the Swedish model and looking at the UK's ISA model, it usually means that you can put the money in generally easily.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

tax-free and it can grow to a certain threshold and then there's one particular tax applied to it.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

But we don't have the details on that yet.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

Again, all we have at the moment are kind of soundbites and headlines, as you said at the beginning.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

But what seems to be the intention at the very least is that it will be simplified.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

Like that has been mentioned a good few times.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

And that's a good thing because I think

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

potentially there could be fear around it if it is quite complex.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

So it's been spoken about as being simple, which generally will mean that it's going to be managed by whoever's providing it, whoever you buy it off.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

So whether that's the admin side, the tax side, that sort of thing, it's looking like that will be managed not by you individually, but by whoever's providing it for you.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

So exactly like what you said, like the pension.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

When it comes to investing, there's always risks.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

The way I kind of look at this is, OK, when it comes to investing in the stock market, it can frighten the living daylights out of the best of us.

Better With Money
New savings and investment scheme: What's in Simon Harris' plan?

But since the stock market ever became a thing, like well over 100 years ago, 200 years ago,