Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
12:20 pm
Mr. John McCarthy:
I will explore the particular issue the Deputy has raised. The Act is a very large instrument. In terms of the entitlement to style the chair of a local authority as a mayor, to the best of my recollection, the Act provides that this is confined to towns or urban centres with a population of 20,000 or more. Under the legislation, the local government units with which we will deal from now on are county councils, city councils and the two city and county councils. These are the structures with which we engage.
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