Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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The Minister stated earlier that some of the problems he is facing in reworking the LPT are to do with the unevenness of property prices, price increases and so on. How can he say that in one breath and then state that it is fair to levy a tax based on the value of somebody's property when there is no consistency or fairness as to how those prices have, as in most cases, increased? How can he make those statements at the same time when, clearly, the value of his or her property bears no relation to the actions of the householder?