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

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon 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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