Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If the amendment is accepted, who will pay for it? Will it be householders who pay local property tax and commercial rate payers in the county? If so, this is serious. County councillors in our area are able to reduce local property tax by 15%. If, for example, the local authority takes on the liabilities of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and has to pay salaries, pensions and so on, the residents of Dún Laoghaire will not want it. The Ceann Comhairle knows as well as I do that people own small three-bedroom semi-detached houses in Dún Laoghaire and pay between €600 and €700 in local property tax. They will not thank us if they have to pay the liabilities of the harbour company. I would like the Minister to clarify the position.

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