John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

The difficulty is that one does not know what the payments will be. The local authorities have to collect the money and will not know at that stage how much has been collected. That is why we do it annually. The Senator's points on cash flow are correct and no doubt people want to get their hands on money as quickly as possible but the local authorities have to go out and collect the money then disburse it to the town councils.