Patrick Nulty (Dublin West, Independent)
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232. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review of the payments committed by households in regards to the local property tax in each local authority at the end of May has been conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34414/13]

Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour)
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294. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown, by local authority, of the amount of revenue he expects to raise annually from the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35364/13]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 232 and 294 together.

I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that in excess of 1.56 million LPT Returns were filed up to the end of June 2013 and approximately €126.5m had been transferred by Revenue to the Exchequer.

As I previously indicated to the House in response to Parliamentary Questions, the Commissioners advised that it would not be possible to provide details of the type sought by the Deputies until work in relation to the LPT Register, which includes the processing of Local Property Tax (LPT) Returns and very large volumes of correspondence from property owners, is further advanced. This work is ongoing and is likely to continue for some time as returns and payments are still being filed each day by property owners. The number of returns filed has now reached 1.57 million.

Yesterday, 15 July, was the payment date for the first of the monthly direct debit payments and 21 July is the payment date for single debit authority (electronic cheque) payments. Any analysis carried out before these have been successfully run would be unsound.

Revenue has advised that they will make some initial data publicly available as soon as possible.