Written answers
Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Local Authorities
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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327. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from solar photovoltaic installations broken down by local authority. [53703/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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328. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from onshore wind-powered electricity generation broken down, by local authority. [53704/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from offshore wind-powered electricity generation broken down, by local authority [53705/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from biomass combustion infrastructure broken down, by local authority. [53706/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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331. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from anaerobic digestion and associated electricity generation broken down, by local authority. [53707/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from landfill gas installations, broken down, by local authority. [53708/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from hydroelectric projects, broken, by local authority. [53709/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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334. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from energy storage infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53710/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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335. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from fossil-fuelled electricity generation infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53711/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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336. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from electricity distribution infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53712/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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337. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from electricity transmission infrastructure, broken down by local authority. [53713/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current rates of income to local government from petrol/diesel filling stations, broken down, by local authority. [53714/23]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 327 to 338, inclusive, together.
Local authorities derive their income from a variety of local sources including commercial rates, charges for goods and services and funding from Central Government. It is taken that the questions relate to income from commercial rates.
Local authorities are under a statutory obligation to levy rates on any property used for commercial purposes, in accordance with the details entered in the valuation lists prepared by Tailte Éireann under the Valuation Acts 2001 to 2020. The levying and collection of rates are matters for each individual local authority.
Local authority total gross rates income is reported in the Income and Expenditure Account and in Appendix 7 of their Annual Financial Statements (AFS) . However, it is not analysed by different categories in the AFS, including by different types of property used for business purposes. Therefore, the information requested in relation to local authority income from particular divisions of the energy sector is not available in my Department.
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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339. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current expenditure of each local authority for liquid transport fuels, solid fossil heating fuels, liquid fossil heating fuels, fossil gas heating fuels, renewable heating fuels and electricity. [53717/23]
Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party)
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340. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current direct income (other than rates income) of each local authority from renewable energy installations. [53718/23]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 339 and 340 together.
The funding system that applies to local authorities is a complex one, as authorities derive their income from a variety of sources including commercial rates, charges for goods and services and funding from central Government.
Local authority income and expenditure is reported in the Statement of Comprehensive Income (Income & Expenditure) of their Annual Financial Statements (AFS). However, it is not outlined in the detail as requested. Therefore, the information requested on local authority expenditure in relation to particular divisions of the energy sector is not available in my Department but it may be available from individual Local Authorities.
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