Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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Question 282: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in a situation where an older person is living with a family relative away from home and electricity is still connected to his or her former house, if that person will still have to pay the €100 property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39788/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011, which is currently before the Dáil, provides an exemption from the household charge where a residential property is left vacant by an owner on the liability date by reason of his/her long term mental or physical infirmity, certified by a registered medical practitioner, and that person is residing in another property that he/she does not own.