John Lyons, a People Before Profit/United Left Alliance representative, has welcomed the release of figures this week that show that less than 6% of Irish homeowners have registered to pay the new Household Tax: "The figures this week are not surprising really as throughout the last month the campaign has really stepped up a level. The anger at the imposition of yet another austerity measure and the determination to resist it has been there from the start of the campaign, at every meeting. What has changed more recently is in the numbers of people attending their local meetings: before the Budget was announced last December meetings were in the range of fifty to sixty people, now there are in their hundreds."