Pearse Doherty
Ceist:116. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost in terms of fiscal space of maintaining the current suspension of water charges to 1 January 2018. [14882/17]
Amharc ar fhreagraTuesday, 28 March 2017
Ceisteanna (116)
Freagraí scríofa
If the current suspension of water charges was maintained to 1 January 2018, there would be no revenue from the charges in 2017. The Department for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government recently informed my Department that €59m of charges were collected in 2016. Therefore, the impact on fiscal space would be a decrease of €59m in 2017.