Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. Obviously, it is a budgetary issue, but property tax is within the remit of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. However, the request for a property tax credit scheme may rightly fall within the remit of the Minister for Finance. I will proceed.

I have written to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to ask him to devise a credit scheme against the local property tax for hard-pressed homeowners who are also paying management charges. Families and individuals are paying considerable management charges. In Galway, the charges range from €600 to €2,000. In a fairly rural area such as Lackagh, Turloughmore, where there are two estates, Carrickmore and Woodlands, the families pay €600 a year in management charges, and they feel duped because they also pay local property tax.

Does the Minister have a difficulty?