Eamon Gilmore
Question:235 Mr. Gilmore asked the Minister for the Environment the reason for the difference in the domestic rate support grant paid to Waterford Corporation and Galway Corporation between 1978 and 1988 which totalled £6.6 million.
Written Answers. - Rate Support Grants.
The rate support grant replaces in part the income from rates formerly applicable to domestic dwellings and agricultural land. This income varies from local authority to local authority, because of differences in valuation levels and in rate poundages applied by councils over the years. These variations together with variations arising from other changes in local finances in recent years, including the abolition of certain levies and the termination of liability for certain local loans fund repayments, are reflected in differences in the rate support grant allocations for individual local authorities.