Seanad debates

Wednesday, 12 November 2003

On an entirely different matter, as part of the benchmarking awards, local government in this country will have to shell out €161 million to pay for this award locally. The Government's latest position is that this would have to be found from existing resources in local authorities throughout the country. If that remains the position, as I understand it does, every householder in the country will have to pay at least an additional €130 next year to fund this new award. If the Government decides not to bail out the local authorities they will have two options, one to hike up charges and the other to cut back services. What are we going to have next year?

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