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

Mr. Martin Quigley:

Maybe it would be helpful to provide some o the context as well. The feedback we get from some of the organisations that we fund is, as mentioned already, to do with the administrative or the bureaucratic burden. Part of the proposal we generated was looking at a greater level of alignment. One of the key issues is the fact that a funded organisation will have so many different funders. There are so many arms of the State or of government that have a relationship with these organisations, and particularly in the community and voluntary sector. I was speaking with a colleague in the sector recently who has 17 different funders to fund their organisation.