Feargal Quinn (Independent)

Transition year is very worthy and we should give more attention to it. It is a topic that deserves to be debated in this House.

I read in yesterday's newspapers that the household tax leaflet will only be delivered to between 86% and 94% of homes. Apparently it was never the intention to deliver it to every home because the Government reached a deal not with An Post, which it owns, but with a body which does not deliver to every house in the country. How can one introduce a household tax in the absence of distributing information on it to every home affected by it? I cannot understand the Government's decision in this regard, particularly when it owns a company, An Post, which could deliver the leaflets. It may have been able to get a cheaper deal from the other organisation but if we are introducing a new tax we should at least ensure everybody expected to pay is informed about it.