John Connolly (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to detail the budgeted level of funding provided to each local authority through the Local Government Fund for 2025. [46335/24]

Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The Revised Estimates Volume for the Public Service (also called ‘the REV’) provides details on the exchequer contribution and expected Local Property Tax (LPT) income during 2025. The Estimate of Income and Expenditure of the Local Government Fund (LGF) for 2024 and 2025 is available on page 169 of the Revised Estimates Volume published on the website of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform at the following link; . The exchequer contribution to the LGF for 2025 will be €591m.

The LGF is used mainly to allocate local property tax, and to assist the sector with increased pay and pension costs arising from the implementation of national pay agreements since 2016.

Local Property Tax allocations for 2025 are available on my Department’s website at the following link:

As regards Pay and Pensions support, a total of €458m has been allocated for 2025 to cover the impact of national pay agreements. Local Authorities have been advised of their provisional allocations, as set out in the below table. As with previous allocations, the final amount payable will be subject to vouching for actual additional payroll costs incurred in 2025.

For 2025, the LGF will also support the stranded costs associated with the water services transformation process. Local authorities may claim up to a total of €85m for relevant stranded costs. Claims made by local authorities are subject to the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding between my Department and the County and City Managers Association (October 2024). The breakdown of funding available to individual authorities is set out in the table below.