Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 19 September 2018
155. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the amount of funding County Tipperary local authorities have received from the Local Government Fund in each of the years from January 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37998/18]
View answerThe funding to County Tipperary from the Local Government Fund from 2013 to date is set out in the following table.
|
Year |
GPG/LPT |
Other Funding |
Total |
|
2013 |
€37,971,172.00 |
€1,335,683.44 |
€39,306,855.44 |
|
2014 |
€22,755,110.00 |
€1,464,109.46 |
€24,219,219.46 |
|
2015 |
€23,320,110.00 |
€1,128,748.51 |
€24,448,858.51 |
|
2016 |
€23,320,110.00 |
€3,132,587.69 |
€26,452,697.69 |
|
2017 |
€25,951,602.36 |
€2,458,805.74 |
€28,410,408.10 |
|
2018 (Aug 31) |
€18,089,676.00 |
€1,610,976.85 |
€19,700,652.85 |
General Purpose Grants (GPG) provided local authorities with funding for some of their day-to-day activities, including elements of water services costs. These payments were made to local authorities up to 2014 and were replaced by Local Property Tax (LPT) allocations in 2015.
As a result of the introduction of LPT in 2013 and the establishment of Irish Water, the local government funding model changed considerably in 2014. The 2014 figure recognises the removal of water related costs and is therefore not directly comparable to the previous years’ funding.
The Other Funding column in the table includes payments related to the rural water programme including group water schemes, other water services related payments, contributions towards local authority pay and pensions costs and smaller ancillary payments.
