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asked the Minister for the Environment (a) the amount of money Ballina UDC would have received in each of the years 1984, 1985 and 1986 from central funds if the terms of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1978, had been complied with; and (b) the actual amount allocated to the UDC through the domestic rate relief grant.
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asked the Minister for the Environment (a) the amount of revenue that local authorities would have received in each of the years 1984, 1985 and 1986 if the terms of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1978, had been complied with; (b) the actual revenue received by those local authorities through the rate relief grant.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 68 and 71 together.
The domestic rate relief grant is allocated in compliance with the terms of the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act, 1978, as amended by the Local Government (Financial Provisions) (No. 2) Act, 1983, which provides for a grant to local authorities of an amount not exceeding the aggregate of domestic rate relief allowances made by the authorities under the Act. It is not possible to say what the level of rate poundages, and therefore grant levels, might have been had the 1978 Act not been amended.
The domestic rate relief grant to all authorities in the years 1984 and 1985 was £164.7 million and £169 million respectively. The comparable figure for 1986, adjusted to take account of the removal from local authorities of responsibility for the supplementary welfare allowance demand and the more active use of internal local resources is estimated at £181.5 million and this includes a grant allocation of £144.7 million. The equivalent figures for Ballina UDC are £420,669 and £440,948 for 1984 and 1985 and an estimated total for 1986 of £485,400 which includes a grant allocation of £241,400.
