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:
With regard to a particular part of the proposal, I will frame it from the perspective of the funded organisation. If I can take the liberty of borrowing the Government's URL, if we were to imagine an address such as gov.ie/funding, there would be a one-stop shop on a file-once principle that would allow those in receipt of State funding or grant funding to provide their information once and have that single interface in terms of information that is given on a file-once principle and file-once basis. It was from this perspective that we termed it the national funding platform. The Deputy is right that there is also the perspective from the Government and the perspective of State agencies, which is almost a by-product of that, which is a central repository and a singular view of a funded organisation and what they are funded for and by whom , on a live basis.