Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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620. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the total cost in 2017 and full year cost of abolishing water charges. [25719/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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If domestic water charges were abolished, Irish Water and the Group Water sector would require additional funding to substitute for the loss of revenue from domestic customers. The estimated additional revenue requirement in 2017 would be €240.5m. The redeployment of the Water Conservation Grant as subvention to Irish Water would provide savings of €110m to offset these additional costs.