Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

There is a huge amount of complexity in it. We have highlighted that at this committee on many occasions. The chapter that the Comptroller and Auditor General completes is helpful in terms of tracking all of the elements. Local government provides over 1,100 services to the public. There are over 580 different grant lines. If I am not mistaken there are 587 different grant lines across the various Departments and agencies. The Departments of Transport and Housing, Heritage and Local Government, as the Comptroller and Auditor General has said, provide the largest amounts of funding. The range of work done by local government is huge and we have seen more recently-----

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