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

I welcome the witnesses. I will try to keep my comments focused and I would appreciate short replies as five minutes is a very short time. I would like to concentrate on local government funding. In his opening comments, the Comptroller and Auditor General referred to the complex ways in which central government funds flow to individual local authorities. That is a great understatement and a very balanced comment. It is acknowledged in the chapter that the local property tax was a replacement of the motor tax fund. Revenue is collected by the Revenue Commissioners and it is up to the Department to distribute it. I will concentrate on the key issue of baselines. I do this every time the Department appears before the committee. There was to be an interdepartmental review of local property tax, with baselines to be specifically examined. Where is that review?