Ireland's plan to raise E160 million ($212 million) with a new property tax of E100 per household has drawn massive criticism. Last weekend, demonstrators took to the streets to protest the tax, and the government has acknowledged that only about half of Ireland's 1.6 million households had signed up to pay by the Mar 31 deadline. Stephen Kinsella, a lecturer in economics at the University of Limerick, calls the implementation of the tax "botched" and says he was surprised at the number of people who have paid it. Because Ireland hasn't had a property tax in recent years, he says, a big part of the exercise was to simply build a database of property that could be used to collect the tax.