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complex one. Local authorities derive their income from a range of sources, including commercial rates, charges for goods and services provided, the local property tax, and grants from various Departments and State agencies for both capital and current expenditure purposes. The central government grant funding to Kildare County … funding sources, the Department provided €164.9 million in 2020, €218.6 million in 2023 and €233.2 million in 2024. With regard to local property tax, LPT, which makes up approximately 6% of the sector's locally raised income, a review of baselines was completed by a working group

thank the Deputy. The answer I have to hand goes through the structure of the local property tax, which Deputy Timmins already knows. I will not take him through that. The issue to which he referred is about the interplay between the amount of revenue a local authority

population of Wicklow with similar areas have similar baselines. This makes no sense and needs to be scrapped. Second is the local property tax surplus calculation. This percentage is set to ensure the balance is calculated to reduce the amount a council can retain. It is an arbitrary

fill. Petrol and diesel prices went up in May and the Government will go for those again in October. Local property tax has risen. Rents have gone up. Students' fees, as we know, are also due to go up. The Government has shown no regard or sensitivity

extortionate rents, to hike up the price of petrol, diesel and home heating oil and to hike up the price of the local property tax. Nobody else did this. These were all Government decisions. As if families were not hurting enough and as if they were not being

Seanad has passed the Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025, without amendment

legislation states the property tax must be reset to the base rate every year. This means if a council has a rate above the base rate, for example, 6%, as it is in Wicklow, it has to restate every year the rate is increasing whereas in actual fact … there is much benefit in spending being done by people close to the issues, namely, local councillors and local officials. I ask that the amount of property tax allowed for the discretionary fund be increased

community safety fund is a tangible example of how this works in practice, ensuring money taken from criminal networks is reinvested in local projects that improve safety, well-being and opportunity. This year, €4 million is available through the fund, which is double the allocation from its first … regulation. It also makes a practical change to the rules on property seized in an interest-bearing account. Section 16 enhances the operational capacity of the bureau. First, it allows non-Garda experts in the bureau, tax inspectors and social welfare officers to sit in on interviews

finished to avail of an extension. For generations, developers have been happy to accumulate land and sit on it. The residential zoned land tax was the measure that we were told would stop this but it was delayed repeatedly, and not by evidence. If it had been implemented … would not have found ourselves here. Let us be clear. This Bill is being introduced at the behest and for the benefit of property developers. While this Bill allows holders of permissions to apply for an extension in advance of a commencement of the development claiming that

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the total projected local property tax liability for 2025 excluding local authorities and approved housing bodies or any other public bodies; property tax liability for 2025 excluding rental properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36794/25

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing local property tax excluding the LPT paid by local authorities and AHBs, all landlords (second and more properties) and properties valued above €1,050,000. [43869/25

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing local property tax excluding the LPT paid by local authorities and AHBs and all landlords (second and more properties). [43868/25

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing local property tax excluding the LPT paid by local authorities [43867/25

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing local property tax assuming the Exchequer replaces all revenue for local authorities. [43866/25

disadvantaged in terms of the quantum of central Government funding it receives on the basis of the rate it finalises for Local Property Tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39138/25

Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Finance to outline the thinking behind changes in the local property tax regime [38784/25