Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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1047. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide, in tabular form, the total local government funding from central funds to North Tipperary County Council for each of the years 2011 to 2014; and if he will include in that table the corresponding figures for South Tipperary County Council over the same period. [21584/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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I assume that the Question refers to general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund. General purpose grants we re a contribution from my Department towards meeting the cost to local authorities of providing a reasonable level of services to their customers.

The amount paid to local authorities from the Local Government Fund for general purpose grants in 2014 recognised the removal of water related costs from local authorities to Irish Water in that year and are therefore not comparable to previous years.

The table below sets out the details of the payments. These are “county at large” payments in respect of the County Council and any Town Councils within the county.