Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not the expert on that. President Clinton said that property and mortgages are our biggest problem and as a nation we have not dealt with that. To bring in this tax at this time will make a very bad situation much worse.

I am a valuer. I have read the legislation and I can guarantee the Government that there will be pandemonium next year when it comes people self-assessing the value of their properties. That will be very difficult for a paid professional in a market where nothing is moving but to ask a person to try to value their own property under guidelines that are currently unknown is madness.