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
1:50 pm
Ms Maria Graham:
The cost of repair of the network is part of the normal capital programme. In 2013 we gave €40 million to local authorities as part of a water conservation programme. That formed part of our capital programme. The State will be giving Irish Water some capital funding but it is intended to be in the form of equity rather than a capital grant and it will come through the Minister for Finance. The Government has made decisions about the extent of that out to 2016.
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