Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

This is a question that I am passing on directly from the Citizens' Information Board and several other groups. I was at a briefing given by the Citizens' Information Board, the National Adult Literacy Agency, which is the body that deals with literacy issues, and several other organisations. The request that came across from everyone - it was a direct question in the context of the local property tax - was for the use of plain English. Will the chairperson comment on that? These bodies said that the local property tax forms and the process were a perfect example of the problems caused by a lack of plain English and the fact that the request to pay tax was not framed in a comprehensible way.