Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 8 Mar 1995

Vol. 450 No. 3

Written Answers. - Water Charges.

Kathleen Lynch

Question:

122 Kathleen Lynch asked the Minister for the Environment the amount of water charges levied in respect of each local authority for each of the past five years; the amount collected in water charges in each local authority area for each of the past five years; and the proportion of water charges levied which were actually collected in each local authority area over the past five years. [5209/95]

Minister for the Environment (Mr. Howlin)

The information available in my Department in respect of domestic water charges for the years 1990 to 1993 is set out in the following table. Full information in respect of 1994 is not yet available.

Information in relation to non-domestic water charges is not available in my Department.

	1990 Warrant	Total Collected	% Collected	1991 Warrant	Total Collected	% Collected	1992 Warrant	Total Collected	% Collected	1993 Warrant	Total Collected	% Collected
Carlow	301,465	160,109	53	445,631	207,252	47	356,242	245,000	69	527,865	319,030	60
Cavan	290,016	158,716	55	320,663	219,288	68	286,443	227,717	79	295,673	247,260	84
Clare	2,297,928	1,862,035	81	1,678,250	1,379,397	82	1,663,167	1,431,238	86	1,076,368	921,757	86
Cork	2,846,224	2,293,505	81	3,023,190	2,361,828	78	3,130,676	2,517,910	80	3,301,050	2,588,248	78
Donegal	1,980,928	729,866	37	1,998,248	815,667	41	2,847,177	1,793,321	63	3,141,474	1,987,658	63
Dublin	2,175,023	85,090	4*	2,116,058	44,501	2*	2,104,568	17,964	1*	N/C	N/C	N/C
Galway	1,206,660	987,087	82	1,517,496	1,024,277	67	1,560,509	1,130,530	72	1,775,130	1,398,897	79
Kerry	1,167,212	1,044,352	89	1,315,717	1,199,500	91	1,562,169	1,314,506	84	1,945,329	1,558,514	80
Kildare	1,310,452	770,216	59	1,497,900	958,500	64	1,491,596	969,836	65	1,616,538	1,238,251	77
Kilkenny	889,000	530,000	60	867,000	525,000	61	892,000	540,000	61	950,000	610,000	64
Laois	651,069	290,062	45	737,387	392,358	53	802,298	590,207	74	742,091	607,239	82
Leitrim	309,816	194,306	63	274,867	204,000	74	274,438	223,800	82	295,524	248,813	84
Limerick	1,507,800	825,000	55	1,485,800	892,000	60	1,478,800	992,800	67	1,400,000	983,000	70
Longford	356,700	229,700	64	399,277	208,741	52	529,652	228,687	43	555,962	263,151	47
Louth	427,660	284,715	67	725,240	303,906	42	628,077	442,020	70	707,628	489,048	69
Mayo	942,137	575,474	61	927,911	583,022	63	919,826	668,052	73	942,923	717,529	76
Meath	1,345,017	555,237	41	1,532,346	750,542	49	1,704,106	807,259	47	2,007,338	1,088,294	54
Monaghan	127,442	73,581	58	105,880	85,386	81	116,871	83,066	71	135,580	102,805	76
Offaly	942,528	630,365	67	883,777	561,918	64	966,428	600,186	62	1,023,942	733,628	72
Roscommon	678,457	498,722	74	774,338	556,048	72	796,403	618,400	78	903,988	694,954	77
Sligo	279,468	182,399	65	193,227	146,867	76	609,644	332,073	53	650,622	367,283	56
Tipperary NR	519,062	289,533	56	597,887	316,234	53	617,542	485,152	79	495,321	374,118	76
Tipperary SR	662,500	612,500	92	782,000	728,700	93	940,952	889,000	94	983,821	905,000	92
Waterford	1,072,248	698,543	65	953,379	634,740	67	977,817	635,743	65	1,134,014	756,858	67
Westmeath	881,047	546,249	62	1,011,199	608,913	60	2,179,648	1,389,349	64	1,451,439	988,816	68
Wexford	1,186,000	760,000	64	1,183,300	883,100	75	1,374,943	1,016,000	74	1,454,128	1,115,049	77
Wicklow	395,156	275,489	70	353,399	206,885	59	438,006	288,891	66	444,474	296,479	67
Cork	5,051,767	1,993,007	39	5,285,718	1,908,807	36	5,382,900	2,013,697	37	5,378,747	1,958,513	36
Dublin	1,021,070	60,778	6*	N/C	N/C	N/C	N/C	N/C	N/C	N/C	N/C	N/C
Galway	669,322	250,367	37	1,050,457	451,575	43	715,944	336,705	47	666,652	385,563	58
Limerick	2,081,311	703,132	34	1,039,579	313,503	30	700,274	21,052	3*	700,274	21,052	3*
Waterford	839,929	178,795	21	1,003,568	141,422	14	865,959	41,718	5	698,021	177,220	25
Clonmel	191,285	176,625	92	221,320	201,593	91	315,266	290,847	92	341,702	304,302	89
Drogheda	397,979	68,026	17	541,206	105,004	19	670,749	319,471	48	625,673	319,226	51
Dún Laoghaire	2,465,808	1,231,118	50	2,764,521	1,294,838	47	2,885,269	1,365,435	47	3,064,511	1,429,057	47
Kilkenny	490,993	153,437	31	520,956	185,956	36	481,999	231,033	48	401,175	203,608	51
Sligo	143,225	88,131	62	144,700	98,057	68	163,740	58,740	36	548,597	288,120	53
Wexford	212,951	67,716	32	217,117	58,984	27	242,032	59,104	24	281,824	70,192	25
Arklow	84,781	56,043	66	111,747	80,290	72	109,688	83,577	76	104,394	81,503	78
Athlone	292,647	185,384	63	272,736	175,293	64	227,224	130,803	58	242,733	183,234	75
Athy	97,629	37,996	39	122,345	48,400	40	85,719	41,209	48	90,147	34,094	38
Ballina	146,000	84,000	58	183,138	67,693	37	153,273	87,212	57	159,764	73,383	46
Ballinasloe	139,076	104,223	75	139,580	94,451	68	167,746	114,847	68	167,492	100,589	60
Birr	194,050	42,330	22	200,720	44,848	22	207,899	46,058	22	228,221	51,788	23
Bray	780,130	494,956	63	726,215	573,588	79	730,672	582,077	80	741,951	629,188	85
Buncrana	107,719	67,920	63	78,044	49,602	64	99,978	64,857	65	138,390	100,534	73
Bundoran	46,914	34,257	73	45,008	32,605	72	42,739	23,136	54	55,567	37,265	67
Carlow	279,000	148,500	53	280,000	151,700	54	253,578	158,190	62	258,091	163,456	63
Carrickmacross	46,665	36,724	79	47,913	35,880	75	49,334	36,617	74	59,860	46,726	78
Carrick-on-Suir	44,870	39,520	88	50,423	48,000	95	64,599	61,387	95	77,529	73,013	94
Cashel	26,191	22,678	87	27,868	22,736	82	30,278	25,778	85	32,370	30,968	96
Castlebar	125,716	71,511	57	155,441	66,965	43	171,506	117,065	73	144,060	112,387	78
Castleblayney	35,888	26,048	73	41,941	33,365	80	41,943	34,053	81	49,857	41,055	82
Cavan	102,605	69,039	67	101,136	81,704	81	101,545	80,670	79	87,622	73,958	84
Ceanannus Mór	72,649	44,671	61	85,536	50,253	59	93,600	56,147	60	95,357	59,871	63
Clonakilty	35,418	23,895	67	37,798	30,175	80	38,997	27,730	71	49,543	39,348	79
Clones	100,945	35,173	35	98,417	40,782	41	113,957	36,580	32	123,861	67,760	55
Cobh	117,963	64,897	55	100,531	61,108	61	96,912	60,582	63	99,548	66,881	67
Dundalk	597,087	299,928	50	650,559	340,274	52	777,857	389,201	50	1,093,246	595,963	55
Dungarvan	126,242	83,481	66	159,261	95,497	60	167,955	90,245	54	176,372	91,386	52
Ennis	371,746	256,175	69	414,669	342,185	83	672,767	543,462	81	512,688	441,517	86
Enniscorthy	80,369	32,631	41	97,506	52,339	54	100,224	46,307	46	129,436	52,302	40
Fermoy	172,902	67,603	39	166,483	81,734	49	240,952	67,814	28	285,812	163,417	57
Killarney	108,398	99,846	92	113,939	104,300	92	137,096	112,132	82	154,672	137,782	89
Kilrush	88,465	70,398	80	81,680	70,072	86	87,498	77,832	89	108,114	94,309	87
Kinsale	24,005	18,625	78	26,683	22,054	83	27,443	22,641	85	32,082	24,352	76
Letterkenny	137,204	78,503	57	124,857	76,333	61	112,724	73,507	65	184,463	130,250	71
Listowel	38,478	33,830	88	41,247	34,444	84	44,342	40,526	91	52,935	46,197	87
Longford	181,346	42,323	23	151,107	78,281	52	205,309	88,538	43	216,257	81,580	38
Macroom	22,947	19,719	86	24,036	21,881	91	22,031	18,895	86	22,885	20,013	87
Mallow	94,000	47,979	51	84,631	39,541	47	83,600	41,700	50	65,212	37,137	57
Midleton	29,766	20,285	68	26,398	20,075	76	25,729	21,150	82	25,211	20,260	80
Monaghan	98,077	69,157	71	86,220	67,854	79	81,704	83,532	102	89,269	75,670	85
Naas	255,420	135,619	53	294,273	119,384	41	296,231	111,033	37	389,993	192,305	49
Navan	103,971	50,048	48	111,856	51,338	46	121,502	62,528	51	125,023	69,056	55
Nenagh	40,489	17,216	43	116,700	66,363	57	107,622	51,377	48	106,431	67,040	63
New Ross	135,407	46,473	34	154,568	45,512	29	150,888	38,227	23	176,161	43,921	25
Skibbereen	22,000	16,474	75	19,347	16,850	87	25,282	20,082	79	31,806	25,412	80
Templemore	42,743	25,079	59	31,368	22,023	70	33,060	20,096	61	38,528	22,699	59
Thurles	213,057	124,724	59	339,876	112,067	33	270,961	97,729	36	279,867	98,841	35
Tipperary	46,144	40,861	89	42,787	37,955	89	29,230	25,496	87	51,377	44,427	86
Tralee	155,677	139,585	90	332,708	224,628	68	516,181	240,835	47	456,181	227,446	50
Trim	117,811	60,174	51	136,188	66,828	49	151,349	92,512	61	136,837	93,440	68
Tullamore	288,148	116,080	40	299,517	130,779	44	281,200	117,842	42	302,401	158,956	53
Westport	48,482	42,472	88	49,764	45,486	91	57,529	53,227	93	64,555	60,533	94
Wicklow	109,300	66,413	61	104,065	66,200	64	94,156	82,391	87	88,814	84,026	95
Youghal	108,923	75,739	70	102,803	94,667	92	90,599	88,421	98	100,652	81,780	81

* Arrears only.

N/C = No charge.

Warrant = Current Warrant plus Arrears minus Waivers.