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:

It is on page six.

The income table shows how the motor tax line has evolved since 2013. The subsequent table sets out the main areas of expenditure. The first line of the expenditure table shows that general purpose grants decreased from €640.9 million in 2013 to €281.3 million in 2014. This reflected the move of funding to Irish Water. The general purpose grant was discontinued in 2015 and was replaced by the local property tax, as can be seen in the next line of the table.