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

It will. There is no question but that it will go up. The pressure on local authorities who are having their central funding reduced will increase. That will also happen with rents. Talk of Stalinism and centralisation is a bit ironic. Without getting into history, more people on the other side of the House had previous associations with Stalinism than those on this side.

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