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Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that. I was there. However, the vast bulk of it came from the Department with responsibility for the Gaeltacht.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. McCarthy's Department would have no say in that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In relation to the National Oversight and Audit Commission, this was a new dawn in July 2014. It is another body overseeing things so that we have accountability, which I welcome. I welcome accountability. The commission has produced 11 reports. Has it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What findings and recommendations have emerged from those reports?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I see that fig. 8.11 has set out the reports on page 130 of Chapter 8 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: What is emerging from those, what are the recommendations and, more important, what has the impact on local authorities been and how are they being held to account?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: The one after that is a review of the maintenance and management of local authority housing. Can Mr. McCarthy clarify what the Department has learned from that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is very important and I appreciate it. On that level, the policy is good. On the ground, however, I take the example of Galway again. I live in the Claddagh area where there is a house which has been empty for almost two years for no reason. I will give some examples and then relate them back to the general position. That house has been empty for almost two years and I pass it...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that as a reply but it is now 2018 with the most serious emergency. I sit here as a representative saying that is the level of empty houses and Mr. McCarthy is just saying "flagged". These have been flagged for years.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I am only using one example out of 70 at any given time. I hear about all of this money and I welcome it, but the reality on the ground is so far removed from what has been said. I am not given to exaggeration. I will come back to it if I am straying onto something that-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: That is lovely. That is fine. I go back to transport. The funding for local authorities has been dealt with by other colleagues here. We met Mr. Paul Lemass at a meeting recently on the funding of the county councils, at which it was pointed out that Galway County Council is the third lowest funded local authority in the country due to the formula that is used. There was to be a follow up...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: When we met Mr. Paul Lemass, I understood the review was in respect of the local property tax. Will there be a major review on the allocation?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: When is that going to commence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Is it decided when the review will commence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Will the library service be dealt with in the afternoon?.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you Chairman. Will somebody enlighten me on transport and public transport strategies in Galway, because the city is choking at the seams?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: In his opening statement Mr. Doyle referred to public transport special projects.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: I was wondering what Mr. Doyle referred to, perhaps I have got it wrong.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
(8 Mar 2018)

Catherine Connolly: There is a reference to limited funding for new transport projects in his address.

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