Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

May I finish? The Deputy interrupts me a great deal, whereas I just let her go. I do not accept that local authorities are in the pockets of their ratepayers. I have never accepted that and have no intention of accepting it. It would be easy enough to pick a hole in every local authority and say it was conflicted in every way in everything it did. In this situation the DAA is paying 8%. While it is a significant amount, the idea that the local authority would state it had to bow to the wishes of the DAA does not hold water when it is a levy.