Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 January 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funds
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 7: The Housing Agency’s Revolving Acquisition Fund
9:30 am
Ms Clare Costello:
As I said, there was an incredible context that we need to acknowledge. There were significant savings due to the pandemic. The Government had made in-year decisions to allocate significant amounts of funding to support the local authority sector through the commercial rates waiver and to support businesses-----