Anthony Lawlor (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Let us look at what the chameleon known as Sinn Féin has done here with regard to councils. What have they asked council candidates for the next election to do? Council candidates will stand on the platform of reducing the local property tax rate in this country. What did the candidates for the chameleon known as Sinn Féin do in the 2011 election in the North? Did they mention they would reduce the district home tax in Northern Ireland, where they have control?

I would like to live in Castlereagh. It has the lowest district home tax in Northern Ireland because not one Sinn Féin member sits on the district council of Castlereagh. Where Sinn Féin has dominated, in places such as Newry, there has been a 50% increase in the value of the district home tax over the rate in Castlereagh.

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