Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

-----the business side. Built into the design of the local property tax system is the self-funding element, which is the Houdini trick that was mentioned. Some local authorities are required to spend some of their local property tax on housing and roads, but there are some others that do not. It depends on the baseline. There is such a mask of confusion about the local property tax replacing central government grants.