Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 99: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to introduce water charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22303/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Government's water services pricing policy framework provides for the full recovery of water services costs from all non-domestic customers on the basis of average operational and marginal capital costs and, to this end, the metering of the non-domestic sector by December 2006. The policy framework also reaffirms the prohibition on charging for domestic water services provided under the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997. In the absence of water charges for domestic consumers, the costs of domestic water services are met from public funds, with capital costs met through my Department's water services investment programme and operational costs funded through the local government fund.