Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I love paying it. I also love paying parking charges, commercial rates and so on. I always pay them on time and sometimes before they are due because I feel it is my duty to do so. If I go into a shop and ask for a sliced pan I do not expect to be handed a bottle of milk. I expect to get a sliced pan. What the Minister is doing by way of this provision is taking money from people under false pretences. The Minister should call this what it is. Posters should be erected in local government offices indicating that all of this money will not go towards the maintenance of roads and so on. One of the three card tricks which the Minister has pulled in terms of some of the propaganda put out last year-----