Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will legislation, in the context of an amendment to the valuation Bill, be introduced, given that the Government may well be faced with the prospect of many local authorities having to withdraw from the budgetary process because of the imposition being made on them to impose additional charges on commercial ratepayers or hike up property taxes, in respect of which they will be required to meet any deficit in their budgets?

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