Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
3:25 pm
Pat Casey (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As a commercial water rate payer and being from the most expensive county in the country for water, I was looking forward to the harmonisation process for the commercial water charge. While public consultation is very important for everything, a two year window to try to reach a decision on this is a little long. In fairness, we have known it has been coming for quite some time so what is the delay in harmonising commercial water rates? We were able to harmonise commercial rates between towns and counties over a five year period and there were significant differences there.