Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not have anything to add on property tax other than what I have already said to Deputy Michael McGrath. It will be introduced on budget day, the Revenue Commissioners will collect it and the other decisions have yet to be made. The only remark I made about range was when the IMF brought out its Article IV report in September in which it said we should collect €1 billion. It coincided with our party meeting in Westport and I made a public statement on that day that we did not envisage collecting anything like that figure, which I thought was too high an amount. However, the Government must make the decisions on what yield it wants from the property tax and-----