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

Ms Fiona Quinn:

It is very transparent. On the Deputy's point around population, 10% is dedicated based on population, but deprivation, to which 20% is allocated, also takes in population, so that balances the city areas out. Obviously, geographic area is the largest percentage weighting applied to it in the new model. The reason for that is the cost of delivering services over a much more geographically dispersed region. This is what the independent committee recommended to the Minister. It looked at it and at income-raising powers as well. For the first time-----