Mr. John Sheahan:

The local authority in Limerick was one of the first to raise the local property tax by 10%. We now have it at 15% above the baseline. We did so by ring-fencing the local property tax element for local services, including the likes of housing maintenance and co-funding of other local projects to extrapolate as much money as we could from other funds. We are doing that in the sense of ring-fencing that money from the local property tax.