Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister. On the LPT, as the Minister will be aware, there is a specific issue in some local authorities concerning their funding model and the baselines. Households that have paid a lot more in property tax expect to see better services. People are not necessarily seeing those better services being provided by their local authorities because while the funding available to those authorities has increased through the receipt of greater LPT revenues, grants and other funding from central government have been withdrawn. The baselines have not been updated in several years. Given the growth in population, this puts some local authorities at a disadvantage in comparison with others. Will these baselines be updated? What is happening in this regard?