Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2016

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised)

9:00 am

Photo of Maria BaileyMaria Bailey (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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When local authorities are calculating their budgets, there are certain allocations of money which they may have to keep or give back. They do not know the proportion of this money or how much they are going to have to self-finance. Is there an early mechanism that could come into play?