John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is it not funny that, when these authorities discover that they owe money to Revenue, they suddenly front up and pay penalties and interest, yet they do not mind not paying the Department because it is giving them a soft way out? I would like a list of those that owe the Department money. I do not care since when. Let us see who owed money over the period in question. It might be the Department's fault that it did not collect the money, but this is a poor reflection on local government, in that it expects taxpayers to comply with all of its collection efforts but it will not pay its own bills.