Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The result is that between the motor tax fund and the local government fund, what people are paying for is the extra 450 staff, the call centre and so forth, the installation of domestic meters and paying off debts. That is not bad from the car tax fund and the local government fund, but it is completely counter to what the Minister told us in the Chamber in the past two years about the property tax. He said it would be used to fund local services.