Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services
10:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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It would be good to get information on the Department's relationship with the setting up of Irish Water. How will it tally with what I understand will be the commercial rates bill that the Department will pick up, which would be payable by any commercial semi-state organisation to local authorities in respect of assets in their area? How has the Department estimated what might be payable? Was it based on a percentage of the value of the assets? If the figure is available on a county-by-county basis on the estimate of the rates, I would like to see it. Otherwise, the Department could supply it later.