asked the Minister for Local Government the total amount collected in rates in the year ended (a) 31st March, 1956, and (b) 31st March, 1968.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Rates.
Total rate collection in 1955-56 amounted to £17.746 million. The figure for 1967-68 is estimated at £34.713 million.
Can I take it from the Minister's figures that rates have doubled in the last ten years? The Minister must remember the time when we were promised complete de-rating but he is still blistering and crucifying the people with this taxation. I remember the time when we were told that de-rating was coming. The man in the Park told us that and the rates were only 5/6 in the £ then.
Deputy L'Estrange should realise and perhaps it is only fair to himself that he should be aware of those further figures——
I did not ask for those. The Minister does not have to give something I did not ask for. He is trying to get over this by this propaganda.
Will Deputy L'Estrange restrain himself?
I did not ask for what the Minister was giving.
We have 108 questions and I must ask the Deputy to allow questions to proceed. If he does not, I will have to ask him to leave the House.
Tell the Minister he should not be giving information he was not asked for. The Minister is deliberately delaying the House.
The Deputy does not want to have his ignorance relieved.
John Taylor got after you to make a statement to help the Unionists in the North. You are so friendly with John Taylor in the North that you made that statement.
The Deputy, his forebears and his background would have given far greater success to those in the North than I did.
You made that statement for John Taylor.
The Deputy does not agree with my outlook on the Six Counties?
You have done nothing about it for 30 years.
I am calling Question No. 20.
It is still Cumann na nGaedheal.
The Minister made that statement to help the Unionists in the North and against Captain O'Neill because John Taylor asked him.
If Deputy L'Estrange cannot behave himself I will have to ask him to leave the House.
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asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state for each local authority (a) the total amount of rates collected for the year ended (i) 31st March, 1956, and (ii) 31st March, 1968, and (b) the rate in the £1 in (i) 1955-56 and (ii) 1967-68.
The information sought by the Deputy in respect of the year 1955-56 is published in the Local Taxation Returns for that year. The rate in the pound struck by each local authority in 1967-68 was given in reply to Question No. 21 of 1st June, 1967, by the Deputy.
The balance of the information requested is in the form of a tabular statement which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to circulate with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
Rate Collection 1967-68
Local Authority |
Amount Collected* |
County Councils: |
£ |
Carlow |
288,880 |
Cavan |
358,298 |
Clare |
484,750 |
Cork |
1,983,540 |
Donegal |
631,606 |
Dublin |
1,930,020 |
Galway |
754,435 |
Kerry |
611,196 |
Kildare |
624,698 |
Kilkenny |
481,472 |
Laoighis |
458,236 |
Leitrim |
159,968 |
Limerick |
803,211 |
Longford |
275,149 |
Louth |
335,154 |
Mayo |
500,009 |
Meath |
723,443 |
Monaghan |
254,660 |
Offaly |
343,358 |
Roscommon |
447,758 |
Sligo |
228,749 |
Tipperary N.R. |
426,929 |
Tipperary S.R. |
584,162 |
Waterford |
508,646 |
Westmeath |
509,874 |
Wexford |
593,590 |
Wicklow |
453,603 |
County Borough Corporations: |
|
Cork |
1,665,356 |
Dublin |
9,764,475 |
Limerick |
651,026 |
Waterford |
363,939 |
Urban District Councils: |
|
An Uaimh |
27,910 |
Arklow |
41,527 |
Athlone |
76,698 |
Athy |
34,440 |
Ballina |
63,297 |
Ballinasloe |
45,339 |
Birr |
30,777 |
Bray |
153,457 |
Buncrana |
31,724 |
Bundoran |
27,478 |
Carlow |
46,133 |
Carrickmacross |
17,242 |
Carrick-on-Suir |
31,602 |
Cashel |
15,900 |
Castlebar |
48,470 |
Castleblayney |
17,136 |
Cavan |
31,404 |
Ceanannus Mór |
13,021 |
Clonakilty |
19,572 |
Clones |
16,332 |
Clonmel |
87,135 |
Cobh |
59,006 |
Drogheda |
136,036 |
Dundalk |
224,744 |
Dungarvan |
46,354 |
Dún Laoghaire |
841,060 |
Ennis |
42,144 |
Enniscorthy |
35,963 |
Fermoy |
32,793 |
Galway |
333,171 |
Kilkenny |
97,280 |
Killarney |
72,803 |
Kilrush |
17,773 |
Kinsale |
16,393 |
Letterkenny |
40,086 |
Listowel |
31,354 |
Longford |
36,469 |
Macroom |
18,539 |
Mallow |
52,143 |
Midleton |
25,445 |
Monaghan |
31,238 |
Naas |
37,994 |
Nenagh |
46,706 |
New Ross |
39,459 |
Skibbereen |
23,106 |
Sligo |
130,927 |
Templemore |
18,235 |
Thurles |
51,623 |
Tipperary |
38,999 |
Tralee |
112,191 |
Trim |
10,913 |
Tullamore |
53,216 |
Westport |
37,407 |
Wexford |
100,625 |
Wicklow |
32,517 |
Youghal |
49,507 |
*Excludes increases in rents of small dwellings.