Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2016: Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
9:30 am
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I was a local authority member for a number of years and passed budgets. Therefore, I have a reasonable idea as to how the system works. I acknowledge the funding structures have changed somewhat since then. The legal position is that if a local authority will not or cannot make a vote through a budget, the Minister must put a commission in place to run its finances. I really do not want to do that.
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