Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Tánaiste but, as he said, people are shocked and terrified, and rightly so. The local authority has said it will not benefit from the revaluation but for the valuation has not come down for any of the people I have met on the street and around Kerry. I cannot understand that. I know of one person for whom it came down by €100 but it is more than doubling in many cases. Many of these traders are renting. They cannot afford another increase on top of all the increases they have to deal with now.

The Government was able to defer it in 2020 for the virus and it has the power to do so again and review it. I am asking that people be dealt with based on whether they are making profit. If they are not making profit, it is very unfair to charge them on the rental value of their property or their sales because sales do not reflect the profit. That is what is wrong with this whole thing.

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