Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Chairman will correct me if I am wrong, but the assessment is based on population rather than the network and we saw this week how that reappraisal has cost the administrative centre of the city of Dublin some €8 million in lost revenue.

The city manager had said he understood it would be counteracted by a subvention from central government. That is not forthcoming now and the council is down some €8 million. It is in a budgetary process whereby it is trying to pass on the cost through parking charges, increases in rent and so forth. My point, which is a broader one, is that we still do not know the net impact across all the councils in this country and where this will leave them.