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:
I will certainly do my best. If we were expanding local authority capacity in areas such as housing and did not achieve staff savings in one area we would have to fund the costs in an expanding area. The explanation is that one is, in effect, supporting the achievement of the other. Therefore, there is a net saving versus where we would have to be if we wanted to achieve what we wanted to achieve.
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