Mr. John McCarthy:

The Deputy mentioned different types of businesses and their rates liability. Between the small businesses and the multinationals, the data from across the local authorities in 2016 indicated that about 70% of businesses would pay less than €5,000 per annum in rates. That reinforces the point Ms Maguire made that there can be a small number of very large players which would pay a significant share of the commercial rates income to local authorities.