Mr. John McCarthy:

I will say two things in that regard. One of the issues that the Minister for Finance has pointed to as needing to be considered by the review now under way is what might be termed as the remaining recommendations of the Thornhill review, which was done in 2018. One of the suggestions - I put it no stronger than that - that was made in that was that perhaps there should be a power to increase the LPT locally rather than a power to increase and decrease, but no decision has been taken on that. It was just something that was flagged. No decision was taken on it by the Minister for Finance at the time, but he has indicated that that and other recommendations remaining on-----