Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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528. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the situation, in 2015, as regards Irish Water and local authority rates; if this is a change from the 2014 situation and if so the financial implications this will have for each local authority. [45270/14]

Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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533. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide in tubular form the amount of rates paid to each local authority by Irish Water in 2014; and the expected income from this source in 2015. [45332/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 528 and 533 together.

As outlined to the Dáil on 19 November, I intend to bring forward legislative proposals to give effect to the new package of measures for water charges and Irish Water financing which will include provision for the exemption from commercial rates of fixed networks for the production, transport or distribution of drinking water to the public and assets for treatment and disposal of sewage from the public. The amount of commercial rates budgeted for by Irish Water in 2015 and 2016, and included in operational costs reviewed by the Commission for Energy Regulation, is €59 million. The amounts paid in 2014 are outlined in the following table.