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:

As Deputy Murphy has rightly said, the local government fund was established in legislation, I believe in 1999. It was established at a time when our Department had responsibility for roads. There was a sort of connection between motor tax going into a fund and roads expenditure going out the other side. That has changed since then, and a lot else has changed.

I will turn to local property tax first. It comes into the fund and goes out to-----