COUNCILLOR HITS BACK AT SMALL FIRMS CLAIMS OVER COMMERICAL RATES

Date Published: 02-Jun-2009

A city councillor is hitting back at calls by the Small Firms Association for Galway city council to reduce its commerical rates. Director of the Small Firms Association Patricia Callan claims the city council increased its commerical rates by 3.8 per cent this year. However a spokesperson for the city council has confirmed that while city councillors had proposed to increase their rates by 3.8 per cent, they eventually voted to increase the commerical rates by just 1 per cent.Cllr Michael Crowe says the commerical rates of the city council are actually lower than the national average.