Seanad debates
Tuesday, 25 March 2003
Local Government Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.
2:30 pm
James Bannon (Fine Gael)
It is important to examine the financing structures of local government quickly to address the huge inadequacies and shortfalls in local authority budgets which were very much in evidence in the run-up to the adoption of the budgets of 2003 when several local authorities were threatened with abolition. Smaller counties have infrastructural plans they wish to implement but do not have the funding they need.
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