Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 January 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Essentially, it is a chapter we produce every year to try to give an overview of the amount of resources that come from central government Departments and go to local authorities. They are generally in the nature of capital contributions for capital spending at local authority level. It is quite difficult to identify the level of transfers if you do not have that kind of composite chapter. Land aggregation was a programme run to take land for residential development purposes from local authorities. Deputy Kelly might be able to brief us more on that.