Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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116. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost in terms of fiscal space of maintaining the current suspension of water charges to 1 January 2018. [14882/17]

Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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If the current suspension of water charges was maintained to 1 January 2018, there would be no revenue from the charges in 2017.  The Department for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government recently informed my Department that €59m of charges were collected in 2016.  Therefore, the impact on fiscal space would be a decrease of €59m in 2017.