Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 495: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the current review of local authority funding will include population increase as a criterion for increased funding to local authorities; and if the new model is intended to replace the needs and resources model. [12797/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The independent consultants, who are carrying out the review of local government financing, will finalise their report shortly. The consultants are assessing, inter alia, the totality of local authorities' funding requirements to 2010 and the extent to which improved or alternative funding options may be required. The needs and resources model is used in determining the distribution of annual general purpose grants from the local government fund which provide about one fifth of authorities' current funding requirements. In calculating general purpose allocations, the model takes into account a large number of relevant factors, including each local authority's recorded population.