Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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538. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a breakdown by local authority of the total €60 million in commercial rates payable by Irish Water which will now be undertaken by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46096/14]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The Government recently announced a new package of measures relating to water charges and financing of Irish Water. As part of the package of measures I announced a changed approach to the treatment of water infrastructure for commercial rates purposes such that Government subvention does not need to be paid to Irish Water to fund this cost, and can instead be redirected to provide equivalent funding directly to local authorities, through the Local Government Fund, in respect of rates income foregone. A breakdown of the amounts paid to local authorities in 2014 is set out in the following table.