Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I know a bit about it. While this is not the forum for the discussion, we can get into it in the March sitting. There is capacity for local authorities to raise funding themselves. In many cases, they reduce funding. We cannot ignore the fact that the capacity exists and is often not used for other reasons. There needs to be balance in this argument.