Local Authority Finances

Wednesday, 13 June 2018

Questions (210)

Niall Collins

Question:

210. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the level of debt at 31 December 2017 owed by each local authority by lender in each of the years 2010 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25816/18]

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Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government

It is a matter for each local authority to manage its own finances in a prudent and sustainable manner. In accordance with the Local Government Act 2001, a decision to borrow money is a reserved function of the elected members of a local authority. Section 106 of the Act provides that local authorities must obtain the consent of the appropriate Minister to undertake borrowing.

My Department does not hold the information in the format requested however the total loans payable from 2010 to 2016, as reported in the audited Annual Financial Statements of local authorities, are set out in the following tables. Table 1 contains total loan payable figures for 88 county, city and town councils from 2010 to 2013 and table 2 contains the figures for 2014 to 2016 (the most recent year for which audited accounts are available) for the 31 local authorities. The decrease in total loans payable from €4.7bn in 2013 to €4.1bn in 2014 is mainly attributable to the establishment of Irish Water.

Table 1
County Councils	2010	2011	2012	2013
Carlow	40,962,899	47,838,598	47,068,117	46,657,346
Cavan	23,829,336	23,508,016	23,398,461	25,796,330
Clare	119,035,823	111,590,074	122,268,632	113,149,495
Cork	514,459,652	488,372,123	499,514,320	481,978,303
Donegal	123,324,378	150,270,441	163,069,485	156,050,791
Fingal	443,820,638	461,583,862	447,409,384	436,324,398
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown	167,651,292	171,683,471	163,457,311	147,477,389
Galway	110,126,595	107,680,950	113,998,829	115,743,038
Kerry	97,283,878	96,045,098	94,033,598	89,308,476
Kildare	163,566,100	148,411,290	143,133,885	138,486,021
Kilkenny	55,073,315	52,896,425	50,185,534	48,658,902
Laois	129,866,968	125,010,439	125,995,507	120,227,156
Leitrim	16,449,042	14,954,806	13,956,169	13,007,139
Limerick	65,652,024	59,853,252	59,432,285	56,161,861
Longford	48,865,576	48,297,274	48,359,580	50,595,362
Louth	31,438,555	30,966,209	30,404,236	40,549,768
Mayo	109,749,911	112,396,604	129,674,681	126,611,707
Meath	92,862,599	88,061,530	86,564,972	84,706,118
Monaghan	34,845,191	32,694,721	30,581,711	29,145,993
North Tipperary	53,477,681	50,901,703	49,640,649	47,898,142
Offaly	66,958,610	64,320,895	62,517,377	59,805,560
Roscommon	14,573,427	14,997,227	26,010,553	23,577,842
Sligo	73,744,717	69,756,187	76,759,641	79,951,950
South Dublin	261,526,564	247,270,126	240,862,951	233,717,692
South Tipperary	68,981,434	69,105,132	68,027,034	64,256,776
Waterford	48,286,468	48,121,978	55,990,723	53,136,325
Westmeath	107,922,722	104,964,878	103,256,860	103,407,557
Wexford	166,274,245	158,862,867	152,895,439	145,887,335
Wicklow	94,584,015	102,237,071	113,866,434	113,255,807
City Councils
Cork	179,267,920	176,107,001	171,161,952	164,325,413
Dublin	921,257,895	900,384,710	876,746,153	806,301,787
Galway	117,516,778	106,515,331	105,446,566	92,471,249
Limerick	25,612,289	23,379,665	21,372,734	19,267,345
Waterford	84,536,828	83,889,307	82,103,663	82,475,797
Town/Borough Councils
Clonmel	5,021,932	83,889,307	4,559,354	4,237,813
Drogheda	71,587,301	66,518,084	67,282,133	67,881,888
Kilkenny	728,220	1,040,189	1,908,666	2,748,139
Sligo	42,617,756	42,393,450	41,476,210	40,141,695
Wexford	4,649,717	4,464,728	6,975,047	6,628,928
Arklow	65,750	57,303	47,998	37,527
Athlone	3,955,029	3,798,471	7,917,686	7,513,609
Athy	4,473,650	4,438,228	4,403,759	4,368,445
Ballina	81,996	66,299	48,773	4,927,435
Ballinasloe	0	0	0	0
Birr	299,929	283,252	268,454	253,036
Bray	7,453,996	7,473,146	7,460,426	7,443,806
Buncrana	0	0	0	0
Bundoran	3,282,833	3,062,802	2,820,152	2,576,455
Carlow	2,750,000	2,750,000	2,750,000	2,750,000
Carrick on Suir	420,247	412,460	409,454	391,496
Carrickmacross	0	0	0	0
Cashel	0	0	0	0
Castlebar	11,965,457	11,832,229	8,694,331	8,548,930
Castleblayney	61,343	54,473	47,434	40,145
Cavan	0	0	0	0
Clonakility	852,895	0	0	0
Clones	171,631	165,476	158,658	151,447
Cobh	0	0	0	0
Dundalk	50,381,551	51,420,498	52,811,467	51,569,730
Dungarvan	39,369	34,257	1,069,683	1,047,078
Ennis	8,546,959	9,097,061	8,419,420	8,092,762
Enniscorthy	4,528	0	0	0
Fermoy	574,537	549,319	511,007	456,051
Kells	58,200	50,225	43,843	38,094
Killarney	3,228,865	2,909,326	2,572,946	2,149,086
Kilrush	535,888	414,499	350,137	287,520
Kinsale	195,456	155,033	136,705	115,548
Letterkenny	9,834,861	9,307,869	15,060,497	14,479,938
Listowel	815,875	831,278	846,989	860,761
Longford	3,915,903	3,620,704	3,347,946	3,080,969
Macroom	0	0	0	0
Mallow	3,814,130	0	0	0
Midleton	0	0	0	0
Monaghan	1,066,114	897,562	697,235	503,050
Naas	18,048,496	7,787,767	6,880,014	6,577,614
Navan	5,376,141	8,591,992	8,173,994	7,737,001
Nenagh	1,834,779	2,821,718	2,810,291	3,298,568
New Ross	1,072,500	986,548	3,097,715	3,068,708
Skibbereen	2,368,259	2,231,013	2,179,420	2,108,989
Templemore	0	0	0	0
Thurles	0	0	0	0
Tipperary	0	0	0	0
Tralee	15,117,089	14,270,363	14,605,261	14,847,883
Trim	3,048,883	3,206,457	3,011,456	2,811,424
Tullamore	8,357,585	8,271,130	8,196,978	7,944,337
Westport	5,152,959	4,484,523	4,299,177	4,106,865
Wicklow	5,991,184	6,010,383	2,910,088	2,815,038
Youghal	1,693,765	1,565,628	1,428,883	1,281,008
TOTAL	4,984,898,923	4,965,144,315	4,899,855,109	4,710,290,983

Table 2

Table 2
Local Authority	2014	2015	2016
Carlow Co Co	45,857,903	45,145,162	38,402,042
Cavan Co Co	18,592,834	21,845,988	20,862,244
Clare Co Co	97,548,382	89,450,510	84,342,399
Cork Co Co	148,194,542	141,018,875	139,390,254
Cork City Council	426,497,964	414,577,969	392,676,369
Donegal Co Co	136,795,154	130,733,747	122,997,563
Dublin City Council	637,703,649	596,969,354	527,989,902
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Co Co	150,679,876	137,541,877	130,182,870
Fingal Co Co	416,064,917	381,164,320	354,784,072
Galway Co Co	81,637,737	71,491,020	68,545,335
Galway City Council	53,108,775	46,435,573	43,989,379
Kerry Co Co	85,054,498	81,833,380	78,148,225
Kildare Co Co	125,499,719	118,521,737	111,371,942
Kilkenny Co Co	39,919,413	39,420,823	52,581,452
Laois Co Co	114,750,225	109,334,323	105,523,473
Leitrim Co Co	7,393,563	6,836,490	6,951,370
Limerick Co Co	79,148,544	66,373,599	81,401,809
Longford Co Co	41,103,418	38,518,037	36,017,985
Louth Co Co	157,187,491	151,259,289	151,892,259
Mayo Co Co	119,928,557	130,620,743	122,965,759
Meath Co Co	88,374,283	83,857,339	78,942,795
Monaghan Co Co	23,561,705	22,189,466	20,577,527
Offaly Co Co	65,815,150	56,203,593	54,373,636
Roscommon Co Co	15,977,008	22,890,563	29,074,951
Sligo Co Co	105,508,672	103,000,765	100,647,098
South Dublin County Council	228,705,121	213,856,678	199,454,190
Tipperary Co Co	111,209,345	105,418,736	99,604,796
Waterford Co Co	130,067,420	126,725,875	125,586,877
Westmeath Co Co	84,093,101	79,614,108	77,068,918
Wexford Co Co	137,619,278	130,683,537	127,608,298
Wicklow Co Co	91,089,894	86,374,220	79,865,547
Total	4,064,688,138	3,849,907,699	3,663,821,335