Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development
Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2021
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Ms Mary Hurley:

No, we have managed over the years to do the capital carryover and, working with our colleagues in the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery, and Reform, vire money across, for example, the local improvement scheme. We have been able to vire money from subhead to subhead to enable delivery in this regard. For example, during Covid-19, when delivery was slow in terms of capital, we were able to do that to vire money to the areas of need.