Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
Yes, local government funding, Local authority full funding for the council to spend in Kildare is way lower than anywhere else. The funding we get is way lower than anywhere else per head of population. Our population is increasing. Unfortunately, we are punishing the places that are able to build the houses and where the population is coming. I have seen that.
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