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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 , Rose Conway-Walsh, , 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 . 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, , 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 , 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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