Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not asking for the Comptroller and Auditor General's assessment of the rights and wrongs of the apportionment but on the financial impact on the sector, which he analyses. The Department has made an assessment that it will be largely in line but it does not know. The impact is always felt by the private sector in that the €1.5 billion to fund local government has to be taken from private business. A total of €30 million is going from Irish Water. There are so many strands of funding but the Department does not know what the real impact will be in 2020. They cannot know as the budgets are only going to be compiled this month for the 40-odd local authorities around the country. I am asking the Comptroller and Auditor General if he actively monitors the impact of something like that.