Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 November 2014
528. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the situation, in 2015, as regards Irish Water and local authority rates; if this is a change from the 2014 situation and if so the financial implications this will have for each local authority. [45270/14]
View answer533. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form the amount of rates paid to each local authority by Irish Water in 2014; and the expected income from this source in 2015. [45332/14]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 528 and 533 together.
As outlined to the Dáil on 19 November, I intend to bring forward legislative proposals to give effect to the new package of measures for water charges and Irish Water financing which will include provision for the exemption from commercial rates of fixed networks for the production, transport or distribution of drinking water to the public and assets for treatment and disposal of sewage from the public. The amount of commercial rates budgeted for by Irish Water in 2015 and 2016, and included in operational costs reviewed by the Commission for Energy Regulation, is €59 million. The amounts paid in 2014 are outlined in the following table.
|
Local Authority |
€'000 |
|
Carlow County Council |
52 |
|
Cavan County Council |
24 |
|
Clare County Council |
219 |
|
Cork City Council |
850 |
|
Cork County Council |
1,535 |
|
Donegal County Council |
415 |
|
Dublin City Council |
13,820 |
|
Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown |
3,420 |
|
Fingal County Council |
6,573 |
|
Galway City Council |
30 |
|
Galway County Council |
50 |
|
Kerry County Council |
589 |
|
Kildare County Council |
2,210 |
|
Kilkenny County Council |
169 |
|
Laois County Council |
142 |
|
Leitrim County Council |
nil |
|
Limerick County Council |
762 |
|
Longford County Council |
95 |
|
Louth County Council |
581 |
|
Mayo County Council |
198 |
|
Meath County Council |
261 |
|
Monaghan County Council |
96 |
|
Offaly County Council |
15 |
|
Roscommon County Council |
nil |
|
Sligo County Council |
136 |
|
South Dublin County Council |
8,518 |
|
Tipperary County Council |
760 |
|
Waterford County Council |
4,485 |
|
Westmeath County Council |
69 |
|
Wexford County Council |
130 |
|
Wicklow County Council |
2,521 |
|
Total Amount paid in Water rates by Irish Water |
48,725 |
