Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

It is and I am loath to stray into that space. I know that this is an issue the Deputy has raised many times. We undertook to carry out a review. We kicked it off this year and it is at an advanced stage. I cannot say what its outcome will be, but it has been designed to try to provide a mechanism that takes account of a wider range of factors in determining how local property tax proceeds are to be distributed. We are probably not too far away from wrapping it up completely.