Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein)
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336. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the annual rate of valuation bands in each local authority area in the State, per business type; if he will indicate the number of businesses that fall within each one of these bands; the value of each band to each local authority; and the amounts in each band unpaid by year end 2012. [29022/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by the independent Commissioner of Valuation under the Valuation Act 2001.

The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority.  The annual rate on valuation (ARV), which is applied to the valuation for each property, determined by the Valuation Office, to obtain the amount payable in rates, is decided by the elected members of each local authority in the annual budget and its determination is a reserved function.

The Commissioner for Valuation has sole responsibility for all valuation matters. The Valuation Act 2001 comes under the aegis of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Annual Rates on Valuation are no t banded and are not directly associated with business type.

The 2013 Annual Rate on Valuation in respect of each local authority is set out in the following table.

*county councils revalued under the Valuation Act 2001