Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

What I did note is that while the commercial rates have not been increasing at budget time, the overall take from commercial rates as a proportion of local government funding has been increasing quite significantly. It actually made up a significantly bigger chunk in 2016 than it did in 2009, for example, and the big difference is the general purpose grant had shrunk and local property tax came in as a lower contribution to it. Is that a fair reading?

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