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

Mr. John McCarthy:

When I said we would not fund them, it was in response to a question about the group as a local authority. We would not fund it as a local authority. I am not familiar with the body about which the Deputy is talking, but there is funding available through community development programmes and other arrangements. It would not be recognised under the law as a local authority.