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. Graham Doyle:
On the issue of the Waterford Greenway funding, the Department puts out calls to local authorities across the country at certain junctures when funding is becoming available to invest in greenways. It is a competitive process and each application goes through an assessment process. In the Waterford case, the Council planned to develop what is an excellent greenway through a number of phases. From recollection, I think it may have been three phases.
In respect of the first phase and the second phase, the local authority went through that process and was awarded some funding under both. If I am correct in my recollection, I think it was the chunk in the middle which was actually the-----
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