It is not what the local property tax was meant to be about. It is not what the local property tax should be for. As I understand it, the property tax was meant to be a residential tax.
There have been ongoing debates about the amount of property tax people are paying in Dublin, the value of the property and the money going to rural roads. With a review of the local property tax we will see an increase of revenue from households that will pay additional tax but that will not benefit the local authority by a cent. The local property tax is a self-assessment tax.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 6,604 words from 16 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Danny Healy-Rae and Mattie McGrath; Níl, Deputies Brendan Griffin and Jack Chambers.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." | Carried | 72–66 |
| Question again put: | Carried | 74–68 |
| Question put: | Carried | 80–60 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 60–80 |
| Question put: | Carried | 92–47 |
| Question put: | Carried | 93–48 |
| Question put: | Carried | 92–48 |
| Question put: | Carried | 90–49 |
| Question put: | Lost | 44–87 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2021-07-14, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.