Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Boyd Barrett proposes that we introduce some form of landlord's tax. Let us play that out. Let us play out what would happen if we were to increase taxation on landlords to find the additional revenue to offset the elimination of the local property tax, as Deputy Boyd Barrett proposes.

In order to do that we would need to find an additional €500 million of tax revenue from the landlord sector. How many landlords does the Deputy think would stay in that business?

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