Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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No, I mean Government funding for local authorities. In County Kildare, the spend per head of population is €715. That is the equivalent annual spend per person under the council budget. The equivalent spend in Dublin City Council is €1,900, which is the highest. The second highest is County Leitrim, at €1,256. I wanted to show the variances. Kildare is consistently the lowest. I think County Galway is one of the lowest as well. Why is that the case, especially given that these are areas of rising population? Why are some counties treated differently in their funding from the Department on the local government side?