Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue
4:30 pm
Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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When one subtracts 160,000 local authority and voluntary housing association houses from the census figure, one gets 1.83 million. That should have been the figure used at the beginning of the process.
To clarify a matter relating to the legislation, there are slightly fewer than 2 million homes. Is every single home owner and home obliged to be registered, even those who are exempt from the charge?