Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The Minister also made an erroneous comment about funding local government. He did not answer the point that local government will be charged. Local authorities will get nothing from the property tax this year but they will be liable to pay for every council house in their ownership and they will load that cost onto the rents of local authority tenants. Even if they get money, they will pay back every penny they get.

The Minister said this is the alternative to what he calls a tax on work. If the property tax is to be taken out of pay packets and social welfare payments, is that not a tax on income? Of course it is. The Minister must think people are fools if they cannot figure that one out. People are not fools.

The Minister's history is wrong. He was wrong when he referred to Lenin not supporting property owners.

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