Peter Cleere (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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852. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the breakdown of the value of commercial rates collected by Kilkenny and Carlow County Councils for each of the years 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30470/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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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.

Information in relation to the collection of commercial rates is available in Appendix 7 of each local authority's Annual Financial Statement (AFS). 2023 is the latest year for which audited local authority annual financial statement data is available.

Commercial rates collected by Carlow County Council and Kilkenny County Council for the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 are set out in the table below.

For your information the amount of rates waived in Carlow County Council and Kilkenny County Council in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 is set out below. Rates waived as a result of Covid19 make up a large majority of the rates waivers and credits figure, but not necessarily the full amount as local authorities occasionally have reason to waive a small amount of rates in a given year.