asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health if he will state the total amount of rates struck by local authorities for the year ending 31st March, 1944, under each of the headings (1) rural areas, (2) urban areas (including town commissioners) and (3) borough areas; also the amount in the £ represented by the rates struck under such headings and the actual percentage of the warrants collected in each case.
Written Answers. - Local Rating.
A return showing the rates struck for the year 1943-44 for every county, county borough, borough, urban district and town under town commissioners will be circulated with the Official Report. As regards the latter part of the question, the particulars which are available in my Department relate only to county areas, and this information will also be circulated with the Official Report.
RETURN showing the Rates in the £ made for the Ordinary Expenditure and the Special Rate for Separate Charges where levied on the whole area, of Urban District, Borough and County Borough Councils for the year ended 31st March, 1944.
|
Urban |
Total |
Town |
Poor |
Separate Charges |
||||
|
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
|
|
An Uaimh |
17 |
9 |
12 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
||
|
Arklow |
26 |
2 |
14 |
5 |
11 |
9 |
||
|
Athlone |
24 |
3 |
14 |
9 |
9 |
6 |
1 |
|
|
Athy |
20 |
0 |
20 |
0 |
— |
|||
|
Ballina |
22 |
2 |
10 |
8 |
11 |
6 |
||
|
Ballinasloe |
19 |
4 |
7 |
3 |
12 |
1 |
||
|
Belturbet |
17 |
10 |
9 |
0 |
8 |
10 |
||
|
Birr |
15 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
9 |
2 |
||
|
Bray |
22 |
10 |
12 |
3 |
10 |
7 |
||
|
Buncrana |
19 |
11 |
8 |
3 |
11 |
8 |
0 |
1.6 |
|
Bundoran |
21 |
8 |
11 |
9 |
9 |
11 |
||
|
Carlow |
20 |
6 |
11 |
0 |
9 |
6 |
||
|
Carrickmacross |
15 |
10 |
8 |
6 |
7 |
4 |
||
|
Carrick-on-Suir |
21 |
6 |
12 |
0 |
9 |
6 |
||
|
Cashel |
14 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
10 |
0 |
||
|
Castlebar |
23 |
8 |
10 |
0 |
13 |
8 |
||
|
Castleblayney |
17 |
2 |
9 |
2 |
8 |
0 |
||
|
Cavan |
19 |
6 |
10 |
3 |
9 |
3 |
||
|
Ceannanus Mór |
13 |
6 |
8 |
4 |
5 |
2 |
||
|
Clonakilty |
15 |
10 |
6 |
6 |
9 |
4 |
||
|
Clones |
17 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
||
|
Cobh |
18 |
0 |
7 |
9 |
10 |
3 |
||
|
Cootehill |
19 |
11 |
11 |
0 |
8 |
11 |
||
|
Dundalk |
17 |
7 |
10 |
3 |
7 |
4 |
||
|
Dungarvan |
19 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
1—0(E) |
|
|
Ennis |
23 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
12 |
0 |
||
|
Enniscorthy |
21 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
||
|
Fermoy |
15 |
9 |
6 |
3 |
9 |
6 |
||
|
Granard |
16 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
||
|
Killarney |
19 |
0 |
6 |
8 |
12 |
4 |
1—0(E) |
|
|
Kilrush |
21 |
6 |
10 |
0 |
11 |
6 |
||
|
Kinsale |
18 |
0 |
6 |
9 |
11 |
3 |
0 |
10(E) |
|
Letterkenny |
19 |
7 |
7 |
10 |
11 |
9 |
0 |
2.86 |
|
Listowel |
28 |
8 |
14 |
6 |
14 |
2 |
||
|
Longford |
20 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
10 |
0 |
||
|
Macroom |
15 |
0 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
5 |
||
|
Mallow |
17 |
4 |
8 |
4 |
9 |
0 |
||
|
Midleton |
15 |
10 |
7 |
3 |
8 |
7 |
||
|
Monaghan |
18 |
0 |
10 |
5 |
7 |
7 |
||
|
Naas |
16 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
||
|
Nenagh |
15 |
5 |
6 |
9 |
8 |
8 |
||
|
New Ross |
19 |
11 |
10 |
6 |
9 |
5 |
1—6(E) |
|
|
Skibbereen |
15 |
6 |
5 |
11 |
9 |
7 |
||
|
Templemore |
17 |
0 |
9 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
||
|
Thurles |
13 |
10 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
6 |
||
|
Tipperary |
18 |
0 |
7 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
||
|
Tralee |
25 |
5 |
11 |
2 |
14 |
3 |
1—0(E) |
|
|
Trim |
15 |
8 |
10 |
8 |
5 |
0 |
||
|
Tullamore |
20 |
0 |
9 |
8 |
10 |
4 |
||
|
Westport |
24 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
13 |
0 |
||
|
Wicklow |
22 |
6 |
12 |
6 |
10 |
0 |
||
|
Youghal |
18 |
4 |
10 |
2 |
8 |
2 |
||
|
Boroughs: |
||||||||
|
Clonmel |
16 |
10 |
6 |
7 |
10 |
3 |
||
|
Drogheda |
14 |
8 |
7 |
5 |
7 |
3 |
||
|
Dun Laoghaire |
17 |
6(A) |
— |
— |
||||
|
Galway |
28 |
7 |
13 |
10 |
14 |
9 |
10(E) |
|
|
Kilkenny |
20 |
0 |
11 |
8 |
8 |
4 |
||
|
Sligo |
25 |
10 |
15 |
6 |
10 |
4 |
||
|
Wexford |
24 |
6 |
15 |
4 |
9 |
2 |
||
|
Co. Boroughs: |
||||||||
|
Cork |
25 |
0(D) |
— |
— |
||||
|
Dublin |
20 |
1(A) |
— |
— |
||||
|
Limerick |
24 |
6(B) |
— |
— |
||||
|
Waterford |
21 |
0(C) |
— |
— |
NOTE:—(A) Under the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1930, the Poor and Town Rate in Dun Laoghaire and Dublin are now struck as a Municipal Rate.
(B) Under the Limerick City Management Act, 1934, the Poor and Town Rate are now struck as a Municipal Rate.
(C) Under Waterford City Management Bill the Poor Rate and Town Rate are now struck as a Municipal Rate.
(D) Under Cork City Management Act, 1941, the Poor and Town Rate are now struck as a Municipal Rate.
(E) Domestic Water Rate.
Return showing the rates in the £ made by town commissioners for the service of the year ended 31st March, 1944: —
|
s. |
d. |
|
|
Ardee |
1 |
0 |
|
Balbriggan |
2 |
6 |
|
Ballybay |
1 |
2 |
|
Ballyshannon |
2 |
10 |
|
Bandon |
2 |
0 |
|
Bantry |
1 |
6 |
|
Boyle |
2 |
0 |
|
Callan |
2 |
11 |
|
Droichead Nua |
2 |
0 |
|
Edenderry |
7 |
8 |
|
Fethard |
3 |
0 |
|
Gorey |
2 |
0 |
|
Kilkee |
2 |
0 |
|
Lismore |
2 |
1 |
|
Loughrea |
2 |
1 |
|
Mountmellick |
3 |
2 |
|
Muine Bheag |
2 |
6 |
|
Mullingar |
3 |
3.88 |
|
Newcastle West |
1 |
7 |
|
Passage West |
2 |
8.86 |
|
Portlaoighise |
4 |
5 |
|
Rathkeale |
1 |
7 |
|
Roscommon |
6 |
|
|
Tuam |
3 |
10 |
RETURN showing Rates made by each County Council for the Ordinary Expenditure for the year ended 31st March, 1944, in respect of Roads, Public Assistance Charges, Mental Hospitals, Health Charges, Housing Charges, and General Purposes Charges, the Total of such Rates made on Other Hereditaments; the Abatement of Rates on Agricultural Land and the Net Rate of first £20 Valuation of Agricultural Land. The amounts are shown to the nearest tenth of a penny.
|
COUNTY |
RATES LEVIED IN RESPECT OF |
Total Rates (Cols. 2 to 7) on Other Hereditaments |
ABATEMENT OF THE RATE IN THE £ ON AGRICULTURAL LAND |
Net Rate on first £20 valuation of Agricultural Land |
||||||||||||||||||
|
Roads |
Public Assistance Charges |
Mental Hospital Charges |
Health Charges |
Housing Charges |
General Purposes Charges |
Primary (a) |
Employment (b) |
Supplementary (c) |
||||||||||||||
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
(7) |
(8) |
(9) |
(10) |
(11) |
(12) |
|||||||||||
|
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
s. |
d. |
|
|
Carlow |
3 |
3.5 |
3 |
11 |
1 |
4.5 |
8.25 |
1 |
0.5 |
2 |
2.25 |
12 |
6 |
5 |
9.5 |
5 |
9.5 |
3 |
1.5 |
6 |
8.5 |
|
|
Cavan |
3 |
8 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
10 |
6 |
2 |
3 |
12 |
6 |
5 |
9.5 |
5 |
9.5 |
3 |
4 |
6 |
8.5 |
||
|
Clare |
4 |
0.25 |
4 |
7.25 |
2 |
0.5 |
4.5 |
5 |
2 |
8.5 |
14 |
2 |
7 |
3.25 |
7 |
3.25 |
4 |
1 |
6 |
10.75 |
||
|
Cork, North |
3 |
9.74 |
3 |
11.02 |
1 |
5.44 |
7.52 |
1 |
0.85 |
2 |
2.65 |
13 |
1.22 |
6 |
8.29 |
6 |
8.29 |
3 |
1.63 |
6 |
4.93 |
|
|
,,South |
3 |
9.74 |
4 |
1.42 |
1 |
5.44 |
6.58 |
11.34 |
2 |
2.64 |
13 |
1.17 |
6 |
8.29 |
6 |
8.29 |
3 |
1.63 |
6 |
4.88 |
||
|
,,West |
3 |
9.74 |
5 |
2.33 |
1 |
5.44 |
11.5 |
9.18 |
2 |
2.65 |
14 |
4.84 |
6 |
8.29 |
6 |
8.29 |
3 |
1.63 |
7 |
8.55 |
||
|
Donegal |
5 |
11.39 |
4 |
2.92 |
2 |
3.95 |
1 |
3.70 |
6.63 |
2 |
7.39 |
17 |
0 |
7 |
8.19 |
7 |
6.37 |
4 |
2.9 |
9 |
3.81 |
|
|
Dublin |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
|||||||||||
|
Balrothery |
3 |
5.58 |
2 |
11.56 |
1 |
8.19 |
4 |
2.56 |
9.87 |
10.27 |
14 |
0.05 |
6 |
11 |
6 |
11 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
1.05 |
||
|
Celbridge, Dublin N. & S. |
3 |
5.58 |
4 |
1.93 |
1 |
8.19 |
4 |
2.56 |
9.87 |
10.27 |
15 |
2.5 |
6 |
11 |
6 |
11 |
3 |
6 |
8 |
3.42 |
||
|
Rathdown |
3 |
5.58 |
3 |
0.56 |
1 |
8.19 |
4 |
2.56 |
9.87 |
10.27 |
14 |
1.05 |
6 |
11 |
6 |
11 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
2.05 |
||
|
Galway |
3 |
9.5 |
4 |
8.5 |
2 |
9.5 |
1 |
7.25 |
0.25 |
2 |
11.25 |
15 |
10.25 |
6 |
6.25 |
6 |
6.25 |
3 |
3.5 |
9 |
4 |
|
|
Kerry |
3 |
4 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
5.5 |
1 |
3 |
6.5 |
4 |
0 |
18 |
1 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
8 |
5 |
4 |
9 |
5 |
|
|
Kildare |
3 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
8 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
4 |
11 |
9 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
6 |
8 |
|
|
Kilkenny |
3 |
3.47 |
3 |
6.69 |
1 |
3.03 |
7.34 |
11.27 |
1 |
4.18 |
11 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
3 |
3.8 |
5 |
0 |
||
|
Laoighis |
2 |
5.29 |
3 |
11.74 |
1 |
2.60 |
1 |
0.09 |
9.63 |
2 |
11.88 |
12 |
5.26 |
5 |
8 |
5 |
8 |
2 |
9.75 |
6 |
9.26 |
|
|
Leitrim |
4 |
4.25 |
4 |
0.25 |
3 |
6.75 |
1 |
4.5 |
6.25 |
2 |
10 |
16 |
8 |
6 |
9.25 |
6 |
9.25 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
11.75 |
|
|
Limerick |
2 |
11.59 |
3 |
6.39 |
1 |
3.63 |
6.64 |
10.52 |
1 |
10.20 |
11 |
1 |
6 |
6.50 |
6 |
6.50 |
3 |
3.75 |
4 |
6.50 |
||
|
Longford |
3 |
1.01 |
3 |
11 |
2 |
8.91 |
11.52 |
9.64 |
2 |
4.42 |
13 |
10.5 |
6 |
0.15 |
6 |
0.15 |
3 |
4 |
7 |
10.35 |
||
|
Louth |
2 |
9.25 |
3 |
2.25 |
1 |
11.5 |
3.75 |
7 |
1 |
9.25 |
10 |
7 |
6 |
4.5 |
6 |
4.5 |
3 |
2.5 |
4 |
2.5 |
||
|
Mayo |
3 |
9.59 |
5 |
0.46 |
2 |
10.08 |
1 |
5.19 |
0.34 |
2 |
10.67 |
16 |
0.35 |
7 |
4.5 |
7 |
4.5 |
3 |
0 |
8 |
7.5 |
|
|
Meath |
2 |
7 |
2 |
2.75 |
10.5 |
4.25 |
1 |
2.5 |
1 |
7 |
8 |
10 |
4 |
8.5 |
4 |
8.5 |
1 |
7.5 |
4 |
1.5 |
||
|
Monaghan |
3 |
3.79 |
2 |
10.44 |
1 |
2.97 |
5.48 |
2.09 |
2 |
4.77 |
10 |
5.54 |
5 |
4.5 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
5 |
1.04 |
||
|
Offaly |
2 |
2.25 |
4 |
2.50 |
1 |
4.50 |
8.50 |
1 |
7.50 |
2 |
10.75 |
13 |
0 |
5 |
8 |
5 |
8 |
2 |
11 |
7 |
4 |
|
|
Roscommon |
3 |
3.72 |
3 |
10.39 |
2 |
5.43 |
6.72 |
3.83 |
2 |
6.88 |
13 |
1 |
5 |
7.75 |
5 |
7.75 |
2 |
0 |
7 |
5.25 |
||
|
Sligo |
3 |
2 |
4 |
6.5 |
2 |
10.25 |
1 |
2 |
0.25 |
3 |
6 |
15 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
6 |
7 |
2 |
9.75 |
8 |
8 |
|
|
Tipperary, North |
3 |
11 |
3 |
10 |
1 |
2 |
10 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
12 |
9 |
6 |
0 |
6 |
0 |
2 |
11 |
6 |
9 |
|
|
Tipperary, South |
3 |
0.75 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
4.27 |
7.5 |
3 |
2 |
3.72 |
11 |
7.25 |
6 |
1 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
6.25 |
||
|
Waterford |
3 |
8.18 |
4 |
4.75 |
1 |
7.4 |
10.38 |
1 |
1.94 |
2 |
1.11 |
13 |
9.78 |
6 |
2.6 |
6 |
2.6 |
3 |
3.15 |
7 |
7.18 |
|
|
Westmeath |
2 |
2.38 |
3 |
5.69 |
2 |
0.13 |
10.13 |
6.79 |
1 |
9.94 |
10 |
11.06 |
5 |
3 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
4 |
5 |
8 |
||
|
Wexford |
3 |
0.25 |
3 |
6.50 |
1 |
4.75 |
4.5 |
7.50 |
2 |
5 |
11 |
4.50 |
6 |
0.25 |
6 |
0.25 |
3 |
3.25 |
5 |
4.25 |
||
|
Wicklow |
3 |
8.75 |
3 |
11 |
1 |
10.50 |
9.25 |
1 |
8.50 |
2 |
2.50 |
14 |
2.50 |
5 |
10 |
5 |
9.75 |
3 |
0.50 |
8 |
4.50 |
NOTE.—(a) Col. 9 — Primary Allowance shows the abatement of rates in the £ on the first £20 of land valuation and on the whole land v aluation where it is less than £20.
(b) Col. 10 — The Employment Allowance shows the abatement allowed on the part of the valuation exceeding £20 if persons were at work on the holding during the period 1st January to 31st December, 1942. For each person an abatement on a valuation of £12 10s. at the rate shown is allowed provided the allowance is not given on more than the whole of the valuation above £20.
(c) Col. 11 — Supplementary Allowance shows the abatement of rates in the £ on the part of the land valuation exceeding £20 which was not entitled to the Employment Allowance.
COUNTY COUNCILS.—RATE COLLECTION.
TABLE showing the total amount of rates struck and the total amount of the rate collectors' warrants for the financial year ending March 31st, 1944; the amount of the outstanding rates on March 31st, 1944, and the percentage of the amount of the warrants outstanding on March 31st, 1944.
|
County Councils |
Assessment for year 1943-44 |
Arrears brought forward into 1943-44 warrants |
Total amount of warrants 1943-44 |
Amount of Rates outstanding on 31st March, 1944 |
Percentage of the total warrant for the year outstanding on 31st March, 1944 |
|
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
% |
|
|
Carlow |
66,554 |
2,493 |
69,047 |
5,155 |
7.5 |
|
Cavan |
104,831 |
— |
104,831 |
14,095 |
13.4 |
|
Clare |
141,278 |
12,928 |
154,206 |
22,518 |
14.6 |
|
Cork |
484,056 |
46,967 |
531,023 |
94,897 |
17.9 |
|
Donegal |
196,652 |
1,178 |
197,830 |
21,895 |
11.0 |
|
Dublin |
212,706 |
44,486 |
257,192 |
23,381 |
9.1 |
|
Galway |
264,059 |
12,876 |
276,935 |
47,877 |
17.2 |
|
Kerry |
175,914 |
— |
175,914 |
30,982 |
17.7 |
|
Kildare |
140,777 |
8,388 |
149,165 |
11,486 |
7.7 |
|
Kilkenny |
119,220 |
8,195 |
127,415 |
18,628 |
14.6 |
|
Laoighis |
114,089 |
5,139 |
119,228 |
8,076 |
6.7 |
|
Leitrim |
79,515 |
5,474 |
84,989 |
11,931 |
14.0 |
|
Limerick |
164,643 |
9,856 |
174,499 |
21,869 |
12.5 |
|
Longford |
65,485 |
2,734 |
68,219 |
6,383 |
9.3 |
|
Louth |
73,544 |
1,085 |
74,629 |
1,180 |
1.5 |
|
Mayo |
169,444 |
1,878 |
171,322 |
10,486 |
6.1 |
|
Meath |
164,266 |
1,796 |
166,062 |
8,256 |
4.9 |
|
Monaghan |
91,854 |
357 |
92,211 |
12,840 |
13.9 |
|
Offaly |
105,184 |
1,873 |
107,057 |
2,005 |
1.9 |
|
Roscommon |
149,481 |
6,086 |
155,567 |
6,899 |
4.4 |
|
Sligo |
96,397 |
2,323 |
98,720 |
9,517 |
9.6 |
|
Tipperary, N.R. |
108,976 |
2,252 |
111,228 |
2,253 |
2.0 |
|
Tipperary, S.R. |
132,998 |
4,022 |
137,020 |
4,381 |
3.1 |
|
Waterford |
130,584 |
7,464 |
138,048 |
14,543 |
10.5 |
|
Westmeath |
115,329 |
2,561 |
117,890 |
4,823 |
4.1 |
|
Wexford |
126,963 |
11,472 |
138,435 |
10,315 |
7.4 |
|
Wicklow |
144,566 |
11,915 |
156,481 |
17,728 |
11.3 |
|
TOTAL |
3,939,365 |
215,798 |
4,155,163 |
444,399 |
10.9 |