Joe Neville (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Most of it comes from the Department. My colleague, Deputy McAuliffe, made the point earlier that people pay their property tax. Obviously it is capped but the more money you get, the more you lose out in other Government funding. The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage consistently gives less money to Kildare County Council per head of population. As our population has increased, we have actually lost out significantly. That reduces our services and our ability to put the services in place for our communities. That needs to be changed from the Department. I would be delighted if the Department could look at it for next year. From the council's perspective, we have been pushing to get that in place. It is unfair and it needs to be looked at properly. In fairness, it was raised earlier.