Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)

I will go through my own questions as quickly as possible, and then allow others in if they have very brief questions. On Vote 9, something that stuck out to me was increased postage charges. From my reading, €2.1 million has been allocated towards paying for increased postage expenditure. This is identified as being driven in bulk by the issuing of local property tax revaluation letters. The area with the highest percentage of people affected by changes in local property tax bands is Galway city, where I live. The average percentage of people affected across the State it is 4%, but in Galway city 15% of people will be going up a local property tax band. That is a huge difference in terms of the State-wide question. Many of my constituents are on to me about this, especially older people and pensioners who come into my clinic. They are very worried about this because of the impact it is going to have. They will be outraged to know that hundreds of thousands and potentially millions of euros have been spent on postage to let them know about their tax hike. Exactly how much of this €2.1 million is being spent on the issuing of LPT revaluation letters?