Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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Given that they save the country so much money in the long term, I would hope not. Ultimately, the care of some of our people that is being carried out by family carers and carers in receipt of carer's allowance is saving the State approximately €500,000 on an individual basis. There are far more worthy things, I would assume, that the Secretary General could have come up with.

I have a question on local government. I may have to get this in writing. A sum of €5.8 billion is significant. Has the Department a lack of oversight regarding amounts of central funding of that nature - nearly €6 billion - being allocated? Especially, when, in Wexford, my local authority got sanction from its councillors to increase local property tax last week, in a cost-of-living crisis, by up to 15%, has the Department an appropriate oversight of the spending of local authorities?