Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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737. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the payment options available for persons to pay fines, charges or bills by his Department; and if there are plans to provide further online payment facilities. [16296/21]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department operates a very limited range of services for which charges are levied directly on members of the public or businesses.  Some examples include Met Éireann services, Foreshore and other licences, and land rents in the National Parks.   My Department accepts the full range of standard payment options for these charges including Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT), cheques, postal orders, debit/credit card payment, etc.  The vast majority of payments are made using EFT. 

There are currently no plans to provide further online payment facilities given the relatively low level of transactions undertaken in my Department.  However, we continue to keep this under review.