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. Seamus McCarthy:

That is exactly what Benefacts was using to identify the sources of funding for the bodies within the sectors they were looking at so that they could give that kind of overview. That was the concept behind Benefacts from the perspective of the HSE or Tusla, where they deal with thousands of such bodies, and, I think, Pobal as well, to have that snapshot of where all the funding comes from and then to be able to go behind it, and see on a case-by-case basis who are the major funders of the organisation. We used it ourselves.