"It's not even a property tax. We need to dispel that myth," said Sinn Féin's Daithí Doolan. "It is a charge on people's homes, and those with living in Dublin are unfairly punished by an extremely high price of housing in the capital, and this is used as a benchmark to measure the local property tax."
According to data from the Altus Group, 50 pubs a month are closing across England and Wales, with a total of 472 closures in the last year.