Written answers

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Local Authority Funding

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if local authorities are required under legislation to fund the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly, the Association of Local Government and the Local Authority Members Association; if so, the reason local authorities are required to fund these bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38132/16]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly was established with effect from 1 January 2015, along with two other regional assemblies, under the Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Assemblies) (Establishment) Order 2014.

Article 57 (11) of the Order provides that the unrecouped expenses of a regional assembly incurred in accordance with its adopted budget shall be refunded to the assembly by the constituent local authorities in proportion to the populations of their respective functional areas. The functions of the assemblies are set out in the Order.

Sections 225 and 226 of the Local Government Act 2001, as amended, provide that a local authority may hold membership of an association of local authorities and that a member of a local authority may, in his or her own right, hold membership of the association known as the Local Authority Members’ Association. These sections also provide that local authorities may make annual contributions to the funding of such associations within the context of the relevant legislative provisions.

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