Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is unfair that based on relative property values, if one is living in a former artisan's dwelling in the centre of Dublin city, one is asked to pay more in property tax than someone living in a six-bedroom or seven-bedroom mansion in certain parts of the country. The property tax has to be reformed. I have no doubt that it will be because political pressure will be exerted in that respect. If it is not reformed, the Government that fails to reform it will pay a very heavy price at the subsequent general election. The people of Dublin are being ripped off. Why should a doctor or barrister living in a seven-bedroom Victorian house, with stables and five or ten acres of land, in County Laois-----