Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I am directing my question to the Minister's officials as much as I am to him. From my experience of sitting on a finance group in a local authority, it can be very challenging not to know the details. For example, it can be very difficult to keep track of the cash in Dublin city, because of the very significant proportion of our budget required for emergency accommodation to deal with homelessness. I will leave the Minister with that point. We must support councillors in setting budgets. Dublin City Council's budget is the largest local authority budget across the country and it provides more than its fair share of emergency accommodation.