Kevin Humphreys (Dublin South East, Labour)
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137. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown by local authority and town council of the amount collected in 2012 and 2013 commercial water charges; the arrears rate for each local authority in those years; if he will confirm that these figures have been provided to Irish Water; the plans there are to collect arrears; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8440/14]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Audited local authority financial data for 2012 and 2013 are not yet available. The audit of the 2012 local authority Annual Financial Statements is scheduled for completion by end March 2014. Data relating to the water charges collected by the local authorities in 2011 were published in the Local Government Audit Service Activity Report 2013. This report is available on my Department’s website at the following link:

Proposals are currently being developed by my Department, in consultation with Irish Water and the water services authorities, to arrange for the transfer of water services assets and liabilities from the water services authorities to Irish Water. This will include the approach in relation to commercial water charges arrears.