Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Hogan:

The Deputy has asked several questions now, so she might let me answer. First, in the UK, they have not moved away from density standards or lowered densities. What they have done is remove caps, so instead of having a band or range like we do, they have taken that away for performance-based standards-----