Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A working group has been established to examine the matter. The Ministers for Housing, Planning and Local Government and Finance are involved and the group will take into account the content of the Thornhill report with a view to reporting itself sometime next year. The assurance I gave people yesterday was on foot of a question I was asked in London. In answering that question, I acknowledged that without a change of policy or in the absence of a Government decision, some people - not just in the greater Dublin area but also in other many parts of the country - would be facing a steep and sudden increase in property tax in 2019. I gave the assurance that people would not experience a sudden or dramatic increases in their property tax in 2019.

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