Commercial rates will increase by almost 3 per cent in Dublin next year after city councillors passed its budget last night.
It was voted through by 35 votes to 25 at a meeting at City Hall, after originally being put off last week.
Businesses will pay 2.7 per cent extra from January 1st.
Parking charges will also rise, with on street fees increasing by 10 percent. While the price of using the East Link toll is to go up by 36 per cent.
Councillors were asked to increase charges in order to make up a shortfall in funding. DCC will be down €8.4 million in income from Irish Water-owned properties alone next year.
Meanwhile for the first time, the spending plan will allocate a specific proportion of the road maintenance budget to cycling infrastructure. The 20% allocation will be worth over €2.8m.
Green Party spokesperson for Transport, Councillor Patrick Costello said:
“We’re delivering for Dublin in this budget. Cycling could be both safer and more widespread with proper investment - investment that this government has failed to provide and cyclists have tragically had to pay the price. In this year alone there has been at least eight cyclist fatalities as a result of inadequate infrastructure."
