Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services
Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance
1:30 pm
Mr. David Hegarty:
The Deputy asked whether we could factor in the social impact of changes in the level of charges. We can do that in principle through using the SWITCH model, which as he probably knows allows us to look at the effects of tax and welfare changes. It has been used by the ESRI in its analysis of budgetary packages and it has taken account of the effect of decisions on the level of water charges etc.
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