Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I must stop Ms Quinn there. Okay, there was a review, but population does not matter. I have done the numbers on this and it does not matter. Consider a county like Fingal that has outstripped everywhere else in population growth terms. There are whole new areas in it that did not exist in 2000, for example, and there is no compensation to that local authority for those new areas, despite the fact people are paying the LPT. How on earth can that system be justified? This feeds into the point Deputy McAuliffe made. These systems are made so complicated people glaze over, but in actual fact it is the greatest scam going that people are paying a local property tax that is called "local" but is anything but.