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:

Absolutely. When the transition was made at a point in time, it was based on making sure nobody at that time would be worse off. That has been continued. The Government decided to make the allocations for the following years on the same basis.