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:
The scoping exercise looked at what was possible in terms of a database. It looked at what would be useful for the community and voluntary sector and what would be useful for the public in terms of open data. The scoping exercise found that it was feasible to put a database of this kind in place. It pointed to the benefits regarding the types of data it would collect - the grant system