John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. I made this point the last time we spoke about this. People who in some cases have been exempt for five or six years will be living side by side with people who have been paying local property tax and paying for local services. Was there not even an opportunity to address that? Do the Minister's officials have an average figure for what the exemption of 60,000 to 70,000 houses costs the Exchequer annually under existing rates?