Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)

Each household receives in return waste collection, fire services, septic tank desludging, school transport and school books. The rates fund local services and the residents there also go without tolls and toll operator subsidies and are not subject to water charges. I hope this allays the fears of the Minister of State's colleagues about the plight of the people of Northern Ireland and I also hope their relief is used to focus better on providing progressive solutions to our financial problems and not solutions that begin and end with the people who can afford it the least paying the most. Ba mhaith liom an Bille seo a moladh.

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