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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: I want to raise the global valuation of Irish Water because it has created significant problems for some local authorities, including Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and Waterford City and County Council, which is proportionately the hardest hit. Through no fault of their own some of these local authorities have found themselves significantly short-changed. Local authorities in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: This is coming from the Valuation Office anyway. Can we go back to the Valuation Office and ask for a history of what happened with Irish Water from when it was established to what happened in 2016 when the global valuation was done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: We could get a bit more detail.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: Irish Water does not pay rates.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: I have that breakdown and I can send it on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: The Department paid them from 2014 to 2018. The Water Services Act was amended in 2017 to again allow for Irish Water to pay the rates as opposed to compensation being paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: It is for next year. The estimates being done by each local authority will be based on income from Irish Water rather than the compensation from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: Members of the Oireachtas from Waterford met the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, who announced today that he will give €2 million to Waterford for one year only. The gap for Waterford is approximately €3.7 million. It is a help. It reduces the pain but it has to be adjusted over two years rather than one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: I have a small question on global valuation. I assume that if Dublin and Waterford just happened to be going through the revaluation process at the time Irish Water was established, the Valuation Office looked at the water infrastructure in those local authority areas. Waterford has wastewater treatment plants that service the region. Is it the case with the global valuation, if it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: Those that have the infrastructure are not getting the benefit of the rates. What is the logic?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: Obviously not.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: We sought this quite comprehensive report because this committee recently shone a spotlight on third level institutes and their funding. A number of institutes of technology are running deficits. When we looked at it, I think Waterford had the highest deficit proportionally. We are trying to understand the reason for that and what corrective action is being taken. It seems that there a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: WIT tells us here that up to 31 August 2018, the consolidated deficit was €6.8 million, so we know that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: We will wait until those accounts, and perhaps the 2019 accounts as well, are signed off on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: On what? The 2017-18 accounts?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: Maybe we can come back and look at this then.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: In this instance, it looks like it is a case of the institute almost having one hand tied behind its back in trying to plan and trying to provide the services it needs. There are still legacy issues resulting from the cutbacks back in the austerity years, which is a bit unfair if the effort is being made to deal with the non-pay elements of this, and it seems there has been an effort in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Nov 2019)
David Cullinane: International students.