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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, November 12, 2012

MOTION NO.12

MOTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

That this County Council, welcoming in the main, the recent proposals from National Government for the future funding of Local Government, now requests that the Manager write to the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, copied to the Minister for Finance, asking should the Government persist with the proposed  Residential Property Tax, that it  be only introduced in tandem with the devolution of full responsibility for the funding of local government to elected local representatives and that it include guarantees that such local fundraising will be coordinated with general taxation and include provision for linkage to household income and ability to pay.

REPORT:

Should the motion be agreed a letter will issue to the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, copied to the Minister for Finance, expressing the sentiments contained in the motion.