Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----60% of the money paid in is money that was coming anyway but is not coming anymore from central government as we are paying for it ourselves. Of the €1,000 original charge and €850 net charge, €50 is all the extra money the officials of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown have to spend on behalf of the people. For every €1,000 levied, even allowing for the 15% discount, which is sometimes derided, although as a councillor I gave such a discount, in the most expensive county in the country, €50 is all that the local authority is left with as extra funding for libraries, swimming pools, traffic lights, footpaths and everything else.