John Whelan (Labour)

While there are many other points I would like to raise, I will conclude by noting one cannot have one's cake and eat it and one cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. At present, the only people paying for local authority services are those in the small-business sector. A property tax must be reintroduced to replace rates, which should never have been abolished. Those who oppose this are trying to have it both ways but that is not possible.