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:
It is certainly not under discussion at the moment in terms of the transfer of functions. What I can tell the Deputy is that the working group that brings together all of those Departments and stakeholders is going to continue to meet, so there is a forum where everybody dealing with this issue is on the one page. As the Deputy said, it is a recipe for disaster if everybody is pulling in different ways. Mr. Geraghty will be continuing his work with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and with the stakeholders on the working group in regard to rolling out those recommendations.