Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State should at least make some effort for the people out there so that they will not have to pay local property tax in the first week of January in respect of houses they will not be able to live in over Christmas. If that is not reasonable, I do not know what is. Is the Government so out of touch with the people regarding the payment of property tax next January that it will ask those whose houses and properties were flooded to pay it? I have an amendment dealing with this issue that is in order but I am covering the main point now. The reason those people's homes and properties are being flooded is that the Government is out of touch. I do not know which radio station I heard the Minister of State speaking on this morning but I was shocked-----

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