Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----is to broaden the tax base and to bring property taxation in this country partially into line with the experience across Europe. We are virtually the only country in the OECD that does not have a property tax. What Deputy McDonald is concealing is her complete opposition to the property tax, which is remarkable given that up the road there is a property tax in Newry three times as large as the property tax being introduced here.

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