Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
9:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
Equalisation has been a concept since 2000 and 2001. I do not have information going back that far but I think we have some summary information for 2003. After the crash in 2008, everything was being cut back at that stage. Even after that, there was still a small slice of the cake set aside for equalisation. However, looking at the years 2003 to 2007, when things were supposedly on the up, over those five years about €66 million of funding was earmarked for equalisation purposes.
If we look at how that was distributed, it was significantly distributed towards some of the more rural local authorities. I refer to Donegal County Council, Galway County Council, Mayo County Council-----
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