Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 November 2025

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary)

2:00 am

Photo of James BrowneJames Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)

It is going into the Local Government Fund and it comes from a number of different headings and other services. For example, €15 million is coming from the URDF and there are a number of other smaller savings, for example, from the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, and Waterways Ireland. It is a timing issue, but funding is needed for the Local Government Fund for what are known as stranded assets. Effectively, while water services have transferred to Uisce Éireann, there are some legacy costs for local authorities and the agreement is in place, and rightly so, that they will not have an ongoing cost as a result of the transfer of assets to Uisce Éireann.

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