Ms Lorraine O'Donoghue:

On general funding, within each Department and within our own one, there are a number of programme funds, be it the homelessness fund or be it other housing delivery funding allocations. Those are calculated depending on the particular local authority. They are often on a drawdown basis and depending on delivery. Outside of the local property tax, which I will not repeat in the interests of time, local authorities then fall back on their own income sources. That is a matter for themselves and would count as local government discretionary income and it would be entirely up to the elected members as part of the budgetary process to decide the local spend.