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ONE COUNCILLOR HAS criticised reports that grants to Dublin councils may be cut and the money redirected elsewhere in the State.
Today the Irish Times reported that government grants to Dublin councils could be cut due to the higher local property tax return in the capital.
Last year, when the property tax was levied for just six months, Dublin City Council collected €39.7 million, while Fingal, South Dublin and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown councils took in €18.4 million, €15.3 million and €25.9 million respectively.
The government has committed to allowing 80% of funding to stay within the local authority area, meaning 20% of Dublin’s LPT revenue may be spent in other counties.
Councillor Brendan Carr said it would be “grossly unfair” if Dubliners were “punished for paying property tax”, particularly when the capital needs “urgent funding” to address the housing crisis.
“Despite concerns over the fairness of the LPT the vast majority of Dubliners paid it, under the understanding that it will be used to address the need’s of the local community.
To now undermine the funding of vital services by cutting Government funds, and expect Dubliners to fund parts of the country where the government failed to collect the LPT flies in the face of the whole concept of the LPT.
People pay this charge to fund local facilities and services, if payment will now lead to reductions in other funding that will clearly increase problems with the collection of this tax in the future.
Carr said he and his colleagues on Dublin City Council would “strongly oppose any attempt to implement these threatened cuts”.
The Labour councillor called on Environment Minister Phil Hogan to clarify the situation “immediately”.
Local authorities have the power to vary the tax rate for 2015 up or down by 15% before the end of September.
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If you want something kept private then don’t put it online. Least of all on social media. Users need to take some responsibility for the volume of personal information they happily put on the internet.
It’s a little more complicated than that.
No it really isn’t. If its private don’t put it online. No need to blame Facebook for peoples need to blab.
It isn’t solely what people put up online.
It’s about Facebook tracking your online habits, the sites you visit. Your GPS tracking data through your smart phone is also used. And it’s about the right of that company to sell people’s data on to third parties.
So it is a little bit more complicated than that.
Everything tracks your online habits not just Facebook as for the GPS tracking, if people didn’t freely tag themselves in every movie theatre, sporting event and restaraunt they visit then you might have a point. I’ve seen people gag themselves watching movies at “my comfy couch”
Online privacy is never going to happen. The sooner people realise that and adjust the information they share accordingly, the sooner we’ll all be safer “on our comfy couches”
Still, everything they track you put online or someone did because its interesting. Either way its never private and banning it online is just backwards.
Checking in at your home address or any other private home address always seemed unbelievably stupid….. There’s even a b
There’s even a bloody map
Everybody delete your Facebook!
i challenge anyone to delete all their private messages, comments, and friends on Facebook. then delete your account…Under Section 3 of the Data Protection Acts, you have a right to find out, free of charge, if a person (an individual or an organization) holds information about you. write to Facebook and ask them for everything they have on file about you within 21days you will be surprised to see that all these private messages, comments, friends and all other information will be pages long nothing is deleted from Facebook you may think its gone!!
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