Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

The policy position adopted was that those local authorities in a surplus situation could keep the equivalent of 20% of their LPT base. They then had to use the balance for self-funding certain housing and roads programmes.