Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 30 June 2016
79. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance for details on how water charges were treated in the summer statement financials over the five year period 2017 to 2021 with regard to revenue projections, expenditure projections, fiscal space projections and allocations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18997/16]
View answerThe figures in Table 3 on page 16 of the SES illustrated the impact of the use of the fiscal space estimated for the period 2017-2021 on the revised SPU fiscal position. The revised SPU fiscal position and indicative fiscal space is detailed in Annex 1 of the SES.
This fiscal space includes the full impact of Irish Water operating and capital expenditure estimates as based on the Irish Water Business plan.
No decision has been made as to the charging structure of Irish Water in the period 2017-2021 so in the context of the no policy-change basis of the revised SPU fiscal position no revisions were made to the revenue projections for Irish Water over the period 2017-2021.
Any future decisions on Irish Water's future charging model will be made in the context of the report of the Expert Commission on Domestic Public Water Services and will be incorporated in forecasts by this Department.
