Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

As part of putting arrangements in place for the local property tax, we were asked to act as agents for the Revenue Commissioners in terms of collection. We did so on the basis that our understanding was that all communications with the individuals involved would be done by Revenue. We have no direct communication with the customers involved. All of the customer communication is with Revenue and we operate on instructions from Revenue. It is a different arrangement than perhaps exists for others because we are paying people on a weekly basis.