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

Deputy Donnelly's other objection was to the fact that this is not a local property tax. The bulk of the yield will be applied to local services. I accept there is differentiation between house values in expensive parts of Dublin and other parts of the country but there is a differential also between houses in many parts of Limerick, Cork and Galway as well and in other parts of the country. That gives rise to the question of why the value of such houses is high and that of other houses is low.

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