Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 160: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the household charge; where a property is let, whether the tenant pay the household charge rather than the landlord, as the landlord pays the €200 second home charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6018/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Local Government (Household Charge) Act 2011 and the Local Government (Charges) Act 2009, as amended, set out the legislation underpinning the household charge and the charge on non-principal private residences respectively. Under the legislation, it is the owner of a residential property who is liable for the household charge and the charge on non-principal private residences.