Ms Deirdre Scully:

We are only now seeing the outcome of the impact of bringing in residential zoned land tax, RZLT. The bills have not been issued so we do not really fully know what the impact is going to be on zoned land. As part of the preparation for today, I was made aware of individual cases in other local authorities where there are requests to consider changes in zoning away from residential due to the impact of RZLT. Some of those things may get ironed out as RZLT moves on and we get clarity as how to the board will react to appeals and how the Revenue Commissioners will implement it. It is still very new.

On the point made by Senator O'Callaghan - I was so used to seeing him in the council chamber, I keep saying councillor-----