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AN BILLE UM RÁTAÍ RIALTAIS ÁITIÚIL AGUS NITHE EILE, 2018 LOCAL GOVERNMENT RATES AND OTHER MATTERS BILL 2018 LEASUITHE COISTE COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS
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AN BILLE RIALTAIS ÁITIÚIL (RÁTAÍ), 2018 LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATES) BILL 2018
[No. 96b of 2018] [10 July, 2019]
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AN BILLE UM RÁTAÍ RIALTAIS ÁITIÚIL AGUS NITHE EILE, 2018 —AN COISTE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT RATES AND OTHER MATTERS BILL 2018 —COMMITTEE STAGE
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AN BILLE RIALTAIS ÁITIÚIL (RÁTAÍ), 2018 LOCAL GOVERNMENT (RATES) BILL 2018
Leasuithe Amendments
*Government amendments are denoted by an asterisk SECTION 6 1. In page 8, between lines 31 and 32, to insert the following: “(6) (a) The Minister may allow for a multi-annual increase in a rate payment and multi- annual decrease in a rate payment following a re-valuation if requested by a local authority. (b) The Minister may by direction in writing amend or revoke a direction under this section (including a direction under this subsection).”. —Senators Fintan Warfield, Rose Conway-Walsh, Paul Gavan, Máire Devine, Niall Ó Donnghaile, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn. SECTION 15 2. In page 13, line 27, to delete “Act of 2001.” and substitute the following: “Act of 2001; (e) charitable purposes within the meaning of the Charities Act 2009.”. —Senator Lynn Ruane. SECTION 21 3. In page 18, line 43, to delete “year.”.” and substitute the following: “year.”, (e) in Schedule 4 by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph 22: “23.—(1) Any building or part of a building occupied by a member of a local authority which is used exclusively for the purposes of accommodating his or her constituency office and the whole or part of the expenses incurred in maintaining that accommodation
[No. 96b of 2018] [10 July, 2019] [SECTION 21]
are defrayed by that member or representative. (2) In this paragraph ‘constituency office’ means an office which is used solely for the provision of representative services by the member of a local authority concerned in his or her capacity as such a member or representative but does not include the head office of a political party or any other office occupied by a political party.”.”. —Senators Gerard P. Craughwell, Jennifer Murnane O’Connor, Mark Daly, Diarmuid Wilson. 4. In page 18, line 43, to delete “year.”.” and substitute the following: “year.”, (e) (i) in paragraph 19(1) of the Fourth Schedule, by the substitution of “a member of either House of the Oireachtas or of a local authority or a representative in the European Parliament” for “a member of either House of the Oireachtas or a representative in the European Parliament”, (ii) in paragraph 19(2) of the said Schedule, by the substitution of “the member of a House of the Oireachtas or of a local authority or representative in the European Parliament concerned” for “the member of the House of the Oireachtas or representative in the European Parliament concerned.”.”. —Senators Ivana Bacik, Kevin Humphreys, Gerald Nash, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin. SECTION 25 Section opposed. —Senators Fintan Warfield, Rose Conway-Walsh, Paul Gavan, Máire Devine, Niall Ó Donnghaile, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.
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