Local Authority Funding.

Tuesday, 12 December 2006

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Paul Kehoe

Question:

160 Mr. Kehoe asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the level of charges in each local authority since their introduction; if his attention has been drawn to substantial proposed increases in development charges at local government level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42577/06]

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Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government (Mr. Roche)

I refer to the reply to Priority Question No. 46 on today's question paper.

The increase in development contributions in recent years reflects the large rise in construction activity which has led in its turn to increased demands for infrastructure, a fairer application of contributions across all development sectors and more accurate estimates by local authorities of their anticipated expenditure on infrastructure works; the latter is a requirement in advance of adopting a development contribution scheme under the Planning and Development Act 2000. In addition the 2000 Act for the first time provided that development contributions could be levied for local community infrastructure, such as playgrounds and parks.

The following tables set out the development contributions collected by planning authorities for the period 1983 to 2005. My Department does not have figures for development contributions collected prior to 1983.

Development Contributions

Area	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
	€	€	€	€	€	€	€
Carlow	33,623	28,784	38,994	6,190	21,027	8,298	31,997
Cavan	2,539	3,682	4,105	6,412	2,933	9,543	28,760
Clare	32,456	40,812	56,491	28,620	45,265	76,729	120,044
Cork	657,402	633,338	690,678	565,667	653,736	709,819	836,623
Donegal	69,899	46,151	21,233	43,087	273,921	84,354	281,596
Dublin County	3,843,252	3,307,618	3,563,441	2,346,099	2,808,649	3,889,010	4,979,410
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable
Fingal	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable
Galway	141,798	265,492	194,498	74,127	53,486	55,767	109,732
Kerry	80,320	108,221	85,180	67,503	55,297	55,799	133,425
Kildare	284,993	342,194	500,055	631,135	543,949	479,369	172,248
Kilkenny	55,039	47,482	199,278	108,899	117,450	109,651	153,887
Laois	63,271	71,867	102,582	53,880	61,322	100,614	43,463
Leitrim	16,349	9,960	16,888	3,492	14,665	31,742	23,099
Limerick	180,954	384,155	1,168,702	378,500	83,560	182,992	232,653
Longford	0	0	2,539	1,270	0	18,322	8,954
Louth	36,689	56,510	48,231	168,375	80,094	133,019	163,212
Mayo	42,645	48,980	46,947	45,257	66,811	116,253	189,884
Meath	109,604	141,635	209,973	137,560	186,888	263,777	572,229
Monaghan	0	0	0	34,067	0	0	0
Offaly	68,450	119,298	63,652	44,674	35,327	111,662	90,240
Roscommon	11,707	3,504	3,466	0	3,301	7,511	190
Sligo	12,375	65,793	56,849	26,135	32,273	90,300	105,839
South Dublin	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable
Tipperary North	46,789	79,204	65,215	69,232	47,242	70,834	77,792
Tipperary South	113,141	102,208	95,317	85,230	131,832	120,266	119,496
Waterford	7,204	21,319	14,610	0	42,282	128,308	82,831
Westmeath	185,753	67,000	27,345	50,718	54,968	39,673	66,782
Wexford	52,999	125,500	96,605	123,501	92,459	93,453	123,511
Wicklow	307,705	192,872	159,419	86,936	78,931	153,488	250,378
Sub Total	6,456,956	6,313,580	7,532,293	5,186,568	5,587,668	7,140,476	8,998,277
Cork City Council	221,959	200,010	195,447	139,690	213,203	172,733	223,761
Dublin City Council	30,423	50,788	53,367	131,615	121,068	0	1,060,344
Galway City Council	0	0	0	182,172	247,235	456,977	662,633
Limerick City Council	128,425	163,521	55,615	198,631	239,701	257,871	268,734
Waterford City Council	46,409	107,532	89,984	87,515	170,352	162,565	235,463
Sub Total	427,216	521,851	394,412	739,624	991,559	1,050,146	2,450,935
Total	6,884,172	6,835,431	7,926,706	5,926,191	6,579,227	8,190,698	11,449,212

Note: a number of authorities, mainly Urban District Councils, did not make complete returns in the years 1983 to 1989; therefore the figures for these years are not complete.

Development Contributions

Area	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995
	€	€	€	€	€	€
Carlow	76,994	62,964	58,515	36,558	87,574	76,005
Cavan	24,837	105,991	42,098	67,728	46,281	103,277
Clare	198,502	249,582	260,699	228,681	230,696	462,126
Cork	923,630	1,008,548	1,285,405	677,273	1,330,414	1,671,806
Donegal	225,370	189,261	258,305	396,368	547,765	462,921
Dublin County	5,185,254	6,073,199	8,069,856	7,844,848	NotApplicable	NotApplicable
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	4,244,680	2,197,218
Fingal	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	2,094,736	3,411,729
Galway	146,761	126,119	280,733	263,486	207,206	464,854
Kerry	292,300	303,150	477,237	531,865	390,144	390,960
Kildare	1,560,098	1,435,977	3,047,059	2,721,378	2,592,594	3,015,413
Kilkenny	191,023	202,370	162,868	157,329	261,870	305,654
Laois	50,536	83,348	55,377	155,352	92,246	200,174
Leitrim	6,031	13,153	15,713	13,956	45,156	54,517
Limerick	215,091	257,474	195,161	137,089	276,405	314,918
Longford	16,593	38,017	71,297	105,569	37,996	30,310
Louth	334,507	395,951	427,344	478,381	717,664	857,836
Mayo	82,624	75,746	222,181	173,354	162,926	170,884
Meath	437,241	373,355	657,105	725,569	676,535	1,209,687
Monaghan	5,803	8,355	11,936	13,662	22,728	19,078
Offaly	105,768	146,082	133,083	136,466	218,749	379,962
Roscommon	22,525	0	0	7,618	38,981	0
Sligo	150,458	140,076	131,624	118,488	189,494	182,602
South Dublin	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	NotApplicable	3,191,728	3,828,065
Tipperary North	89,729	54,294	89,496	105,071	790,064	85,048
Tipperary South	149,281	193,269	145,794	183,772	345,847	384,508
Waterford	56,615	175,700	46,904	219,624	871,628	164,162
Westmeath	133,575	104,618	109,548	121,505	136,757	206,678
Wexford	109,501	422,749	373,978	334,604	269,507	429,899
Wicklow	404,892	368,502	565,225	476,232	920,210	1,181,067
Sub Total	11,195,538	12,607,852	17,194,542	16,431,826	21,038,582	22,261,359
Cork City Council	190,007	211,457	199,824	302,634	810,513	943,875
Dublin City Council	1,027,936	1,279,600	1,127,087	1,531,355	2,576,634	2,674,660
Galway City Council	773,743	882,497	782,550	613,944	713,339	1,049,252
Limerick City Council	216,833	416,238	594,665	389,788	601,326	984,053
Waterford City Council	170,569	281,882	284,068	390,113	345,748	527,244
Sub Total	2,379,088	3,071,674	2,988,194	3,227,834	5,047,561	6,179,084
Total	13,574,626	15,679,526	20,182,736	19,659,661	26,086,143	28,440,443

Development Contributions

Area	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
	€	€	€	€	€	€
Carlow	113,882	240,069	106,257	591,351	866,523	721,492
Cavan	58,544	165,729	479,851	725,459	980,322	985,723
Clare	423,227	679,284	1,005,647	1,626,640	1,337,848	1,342,238
Cork	2,744,498	4,501,977	5,534,894	7,378,054	10,101,535	9,803,819
Donegal	605,515	846,313	985,011	2,456,995	2,003,808	3,011,577
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown	3,228,941	2,049,879	2,475,687	4,911,559	5,978,272	6,067,832
Fingal	5,229,046	5,710,981	8,466,367	12,162,025	13,612,511	14,764,631
Galway	454,679	968,328	386,172	1,501,752	2,854,366	3,688,593
Kerry	830,791	1,356,647	1,508,441	1,406,502	1,659,268	1,902,843
Kildare	8,875,524	8,894,331	7,474,678	5,072,816	6,428,683	6,078,742
Kilkenny	248,316	424,305	885,965	719,227	952,403	2,949,594
Laois	171,002	300,024	428,803	781,079	1,732,248	1,511,250
Leitrim	87,232	91,231	58,725	218,636	643,846	427,771
Limerick	456,048	544,198	971,444	1,646,977	1,632,093	2,277,417
Longford	78,065	179,367	61,571	202,166	670,007	866,501
Louth	1,238,194	752,618	1,866,824	3,048,278	4,270,854	5,174,232
Mayo	224,958	344,212	700,050	1,810,172	1,933,749	1,301,687
Meath	2,150,759	2,051,824	3,215,831	3,598,443	6,028,640	12,861,534
Monaghan	605,094	28,455	85,974	222,776	28,760	1,039,145
Offaly	230,297	358,306	457,224	863,673	1,411,426	983,783
Roscommon	119,876	258,735	437,749	473,625	1,173,977	798,832
Sligo	187,763	379,174	108,271	66,788	543,721	1,286,519
South Dublin	6,094,743	8,380,271	7,999,350	9,523,036	10,901,971	10,704,857
Tipperary North	195,848	1,933,996	489,988	453,330	643,638	1,092,348
Tipperary South	633,189	686,127	573,791	944,826	1,346,763	1,204,065
Waterford	171,812	400,753	577,445	1,324,309	2,018,991	1,659,281
Westmeath	457,715	770,579	1,296,834	1,187,396	1,942,817	2,067,964
Wexford	639,396	438,890	1,441,606	3,345,130	4,517,652	5,096,974
Wicklow	1,886,892	2,347,153	2,346,500	3,572,917	3,095,139	5,236,242
Sub Total	38,441,845	46,083,757	52,426,947	71,835,936	91,311,830	106,907,486
Cork City Council	705,679	766,213	1,174,270	1,739,116	1,924,379	1,820,076
Dublin City Council	3,878,684	6,641,007	7,646,575	9,127,950	10,563,548	7,606,758
Galway City Council	1,451,420	2,226,624	2,689,035	2,785,661	3,523,296	3,815,743
Limerick City Council	650,908	843,658	1,265,119	838,300	1,255,950	1,214,372
Waterford City Council	810,586	1,251,893	1,124,147	844,969	1,801,139	611,577
Sub Total	7,497,276	11,729,396	13,899,146	15,335,996	19,068,312	15,068,526
Total	45,939,121	57,813,153	66,326,093	87,171,931	110,380,142	121,976,012

Development Contributions

Area	2002	2003	2004	2005
	€	€	€	€
Carlow	527,526	4,108,871	5,423,712	4,782,745
Cavan	1,250,997	1,726,563	2,443,668	3,463,676
Clare	1,848,373	5,030,619	15,012,318	8,459,942
Cork	13,650,879	18,640,420	23,372,801	42,277,686
Donegal	2,886,599	4,077,770	5,408,421	5,133,251
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown	7,761,776	8,248,405	12,005,514	24,197,857
Fingal	16,338,872	22,828,194	36,418,076	50,499,281
Galway	3,472,987	6,283,355	10,192,308	12,589,385
Kerry	3,540,009	4,142,871	8,414,791	12,331,312
Kildare	9,249,082	9,681,082	21,553,713	27,446,483
Kilkenny	3,242,523	3,990,300	8,104,213	13,072,063
Laois	2,531,622	4,058,654	4,846,814	12,679,478
Leitrim	763,472	1,904,028	2,177,356	4,254,073
Limerick	2,896,451	3,246,640	5,102,569	7,812,743
Longford	1,438,301	1,306,556	2,840,998	2,724,196
Louth	8,993,794	11,621,455	13,576,797	19,816,995
Mayo	786,940	1,266,487	4,156,144	8,690,858
Meath	9,506,636	21,223,966	23,739,581	38,569,452
Monaghan	1,021,967	1,187,936	1,684,053	2,610,452
Offaly	1,194,923	2,440,985	5,077,802	4,141,990
Roscommon	1,958,157	3,449,130	3,679,966	6,405,252
Sligo	2,416,388	2,527,829	2,669,171	7,419,691
South Dublin	11,243,420	2,397,997	20,759,303	31,581,698
Tipperary North	1,014,080	15,249,361	5,227,791	6,083,430
Tipperary South	2,003,725	3,751,818	5,342,596	6,976,825
Waterford	1,596,213	1,663,166	3,519,316	5,125,913
Westmeath	1,819,521	3,793,639	5,274,025	6,984,991
Wexford	6,507,272	8,043,630	11,591,327	33,916,182
Wicklow	7,929,194	8,951,778	11,541,145	18,341,470
Sub Total	129,391,699	186,843,506	281,156,288	428,389,368
Cork City Council	3,094,378	7,521,882	10,831,391	11,043,286
Dublin City Council	8,654,092	11,378,014	27,571,393	63,572,817
Galway City Council	5,142,663	5,795,645	7,358,804	5,249,281
Limerick City Council	2,493,006	2,521,556	4,592,920	7,812,743
Waterford City Council	2,219,625	1,388,454	5,807,685	3,367,703
Sub Total	21,603,764	28,605,551	56,162,193	91,045,830
Total	150,995,463	215,449,057	337,318,481	519,435,198