Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

I will bring Ms Quinn in on the question about the future and the wider implications. In terms of growing counties, obviously there is the Government sourced grant funding for housing, roads, and a variety of other things, that must be targeted in areas of population growth. There are other services that are provided by the Government in the education space, etc., that again have to target the areas of population growth.

In terms of this particular piece there is the overall level of funding available and then there is how it gets divided out and those changes that were made recently. We have been clear in the document the Deputy has read back-----