Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Comptroller and Auditor General draws attention to where the Ministers have passed legislation to the effect to ignore the international standards, so this is another example where the Comptroller and Auditor General highlights that.

We will now move on to the work programme. We will come back to the third level colleges separately. I wish to highlight that on Thursday, 8 March there is a meeting on the funding for local government. What I am proposing to do is to manage the meeting by breaking it up into two chunks. In the morning we will deal with the central government funding of local authorities, and the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government will be here to deal with that, as the funding body. We will also deal with the Local Government Fund on that day, even though that is closing down a bit, but it was in existence last year; funding from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport which goes to local authorities; and, funding from Transport Infrastructure Ireland. There is a special report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on motor taxation. In the morning session, I propose that we agree to deal with the funding of local government, and that includes the roads funding as well as funding directly from the line Department.