Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services
10:00 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
When one looks back historically, a significant proportion of the motor tax proceeds that went into the local government fund would have funded the general purpose grant allocations to local authorities, a big chunk of which would have been used to fund water services stuff. It is an historical construct that, perhaps, has outlived its time.