Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
12:30 pm
John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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That is very vague and they took the chain which was passed on to the new mayor from the previous town council. The Department needs to examine this issue. These groups are very democratic; they are not political. There is a mayor; thousands of people in Clonakilty believed it was important enough to show up and vote. There is a lacuna in this respect in the Department because there is a reference to it in the Bill. The people of Clonakilty saw this reference and acted on it. I do not see any reason the Department would not fund an organisation. Organisations appear all the time and make funding requests to it. I am surprised that it would preclude funding such an organisation which is democratic.