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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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As the amount of time available to me is quite limited, I propose to put a number of questions to which I would like succinct answers. I have some sympathy with a number of the points made by Deputy Cassells about the local property tax. After this tax is collected at local government level, the local authorities that are net contributors transfer money to the Department. They retain 80% of the money and send anything over that to the Department to be redistributed.