Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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769. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide details on the amount available in the local government fund in the years 2014 and 2015; and if he will provide a breakdown of the allocation to each local authority, and of each line item capital and current expenditure allocated for other purposes from the fund. [30205/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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The estimated income and expenditure from the Local Government Fund for 2014 and 2015 (set out in the tables below) is also set out in page 160 of the Revised Estimates Volume for 2015, which is available on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. Table 1: Local Government Fund Income

Table 2: Local Government Fund Expenditure

The Local Government Fund is audited each year by the Comptroller and Auditor General. The annual accounts of the Local Government Fund for 2014 are in the process of being audited and, when finalised, will be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas and will be published on my Department’s website.

As regards allocations to each Local Authority I assume that the Question refers to general purpose grants from the Local Government Fund. General purpose grants were my Department’s contribution towards meeting the cost to local authorities of providing a reasonable level of services to their customers. GPGs were replaced by Local Property Tax allocations in 2015. The following tables detail the general purpose grant allocations from the Local Government Fund to all local authorities in 2014 (the allocations to County Councils are “county at large” allocations in respect of the County Council and any Town Councils within the county) and the LPT allocations for each local authority in 2015.

Table 3: General Purpose Grant Allocations 2014

Table 4 : Local Property Tax Allocations 2015