Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the income components and the anticipated income to the Local Government Fund in 2018; the expected expenditure items and total expenditure in 2018 following the enactment of the Water Services Act 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50360/17]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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As provided for in the Water Services Act 2017, from 2018 onward all State funding to Irish Water will be channelled through my Department’s Vote. In order to facilitate the change in funding sources the provisions of the Act facilitate the payment of motor tax receipts into the Exchequer, rather than the Local Government Fund (LGF), and the direct payment of local property tax receipts into the LGF.

The distribution of the 2018 allocations across my Department's Vote, including the income and expenditure components for the LGF, will be determined through the 2018 Revised Estimates Volume (REV) process. It is expected that the 2018 REV will be finalised and published by my colleague, the Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, in December.