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

Mr. Graham Doyle:

The reserves and how they are used get discussed with the Department of public expenditure at budget time, in any event. We have done a review of that. There is a new protocol in place for how those reserves will be used. They get built up because the allocations under the Local Government Fund are done in advance. When property tax comes in, arrears are paid and there are also LPT payments in advance. Some of these ultimately result in reserves in the fund and it is a matter of discussion between ourselves and the Department of public expenditure as to how these funds are used. The existing funds-----

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