Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

People are very nervous about this as we approach 2019 and 2020 to see what the review will hold. Will the review not be published until August? When will we have it? Could the Minister give us his view on the propositions put forward by the Parliamentary Budget Office, which looked at various ways where we could reach a stable and fair local government tax across the country? There has effectively been a 5% increase in the tax in Fingal and people living in very modest houses might be paying €500, €600, €700 or €800 early next month. This extra 5% is significant. The county manager said that he will do such and such with that money but at the same time, while local government needs to be funded, as Deputy Boyd Barrett said, we have had no additional funding for it and the Minister has not achieved the fundamental constitutional basis of a fair tax. This tax is not one of those.

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