Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the local property tax allocation to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council; the amount by which this sum exceeds the General Purposes Grant of 2014; the amount of that excess, which can be used for discretionary purposes; the amount which is to be allocated from the excess to the housing and road areas, in order to release central Government funding for other purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter?

In accordance with the Government‘sdecisions in relation to local retention of Local Property Tax, my Department has notified Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council of a revised provisional Local Property Tax (LPT) allocation of €34,757,156 for 2015.  This allocation takes into account the passing of a resolution by the elected members to vary the basic rate of local property tax downwards by 15% for 2015, which had the effect of reducing the amount of the 2015 LPT allocation by €8,020,882.  Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council received a General Purposes Grant (GPG) of €5,724,579 from the Local Government Fund in 2014.  Accordingly, the revised LPT allocation for 2015 exceeds the 2014 General Purposes Grant by €29,032,577.