Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

No. A total of 80% is retained locally and that is entirely at discretion. When I talk about self-funding of programmes I refer to eight or nine who have a surplus where in effect in the transition from the old general purpose grant to the local property tax they would have gained significantly. They were allowed to retain a part of that gain, entirely at their own discretion but they must assign a slice of that gain to housing and roads. That is not part of the 80%.

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