Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 371: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount in development contribution levies he is forecasting for each individual local authority to receive as income in 2008; the figures for 2006 and 2007 for each local authority's income from development contribution levies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33348/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Section 48 of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 provides that planning authorities may levy development contributions in respect of public infrastructure and facilities provided by, or on behalf of, the local authority that benefit development in the area. Development contribution schemes are drawn up by each planning authority and approved by the elected members following a public consultation process.

My Department has no role in forecasting the annual development contributions income across local authorities. As Minister, my role is to provide the necessary statutory and policy framework within which individual development contribution schemes are adopted by each local authority.

Details of individual development contribution schemes are available directly from each planning authority. Each planning authority is also required to include details of contributions received and contributions owing to it, together with information on how the contributions have been expended, in the statutory annual report of the authority.

My Department's Annual Planning Statistics for 2006, which gives an unaudited breakdown of Development Contribution income for Local Authorities, are available on my Department's website, www.environ.ie. The 2007 Annual Planning Statistics are currently being finalised and I expect to make them available on my Department's website within two weeks.

Lucinda Creighton (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the income from payments under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000 that he is forecasting for each individual local authority to receive in 2008; the figures for 2006 and 2007 for each local authority's income from these payments under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33349/08]

Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Detailed information on all financial contributions received under Part V in each local authority area since activity commenced in 2002 up to the end of March 2008 is available on my Department's website at www.environ.ie.

The amount of financial contributions received, in lieu of the transfer of land, to satisfy the Part V condition is dependent on the level and commencement of private sector residential development and, crucially, the nature of Part V agreements entered into. Accordingly, it is not possible to forecast the amount that each housing authority might accept in any given year.