Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Michael McGrath is always constructive. He raised an issue he had raised previously of having a second test to decide who should pay property tax. The Government decided that when the Bill is enacted the tax will be paid on the market value of the family home on the basis of self-assessment. Those that have an inability to pay may defer. The details of criteria relating to inability to pay are set out. Deputy Michael McGrath wishes to introduce another axis so that one would have an income axis and a value axis and where the two cross there is a liability to pay. The issue was decided and the President signed the Bill into law. He is going back to the original Bill and running something the Government has already decided. The Deputy is entitled to do that but the answer will be the same.

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