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. John McCarthy:
Absolutely; I am giving the economic perspective. The points I made about compliance costs were in respect of taxation, not charges, particularly water charges. On compliance - I would need to check this with the Central Statistics Office - on the basis of EUROSTAT's requirements, we were required to set a compliance rate in the range of 50% from 2016. I do not know when it will get to 100%, but that is an issue the committee might raise with the Central Statistics Office.
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