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

As all Deputies are aware, the implementation of a property tax was always going to be difficult, especially when it was being resisted by many Deputies and groups in the House and many organised groups outside the House. Nobody ever made light of the task of implementing the tax. Notwithstanding the difficulty in introducing it, when one takes everything into account, the Revenue did a very good job and achieved a high level of compliance, more than 90%, last year. While a difficulty arose earlier in the year, the system is on track again and it seems it will operate reasonably well again from the point of view of compliance and revenue generation in 2014.

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