Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests. I might take Ms O'Meara up on the idea of extracting further profits from the tobacco companies operating in Ireland. Does such a model work elsewhere and could we emulate it? Extracting profits is an attractive idea about which I would like to know more. What level of profits is being earned by tobacco companies in Ireland?

What does Mr. Lyons believe the impact will be on householders of adopting a site value tax as opposed to the Government's apparent plan, namely, a market value tax? If the burden is being spread via a site value tax to other forms of property owners, will individual households have smaller bills? What categories of people are captured by a site value tax that are not captured by a market value tax?