Mairéad Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein)

I also welcome the Greybridge Classic Club. I would only love to be part of its Christmas lights run. It sounds amazing.

Property tax is going up for people and every household will be hit with a higher bill. Over the course of the weekend, I held a number of clinics - in the city, Clifden and other places in Connemara. At every single clinic, a pensioner came to say they were extremely worried about the cost going up because they could not make ends meet as it was and this would put further pressure on them. Many had not even heard this was happening and got a huge fright when they got the letter through the door asking them to fill out a form and they saw that their property tax was going to go up. They cannot believe this is going to happen. The Taoiseach must be aware of this. We are talking about pensioners who are extremely worried about paying this local property tax, LPT. They know it will go up and are asking if it can be changed or stopped. It is coming directly from the Government. House prices are out of control and it is only going to continue.

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