Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 July 2023
657. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of the different funding streams for local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/23]
View answerMy Department has a wide and diverse business agenda, covering a broad range of functions including local authority housing, voluntary housing, homeless services, estate regeneration, energy efficiency retrofitting, housing grants, rural water schemes, urban renewal/regeneration, fire services, and natural and built heritage, each of which includes a number of funding schemes.
My Department engages regularly and constructively with the local government sector and with individual local authorities on their financial situations. Information on these individual programmes and schemes is available to local authorities through this regular direct engagement, as well as indirectly via the website, publications and announcements.
Information on funding provided by my Department to local authorities for the relevant years is contained in the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services: Central Funding of Local Authorities published by the Comptroller and Auditor General, which is available at the following link:
www.audit.gov.ie/en/publications/report%20on%20the%20accounts%20of%20the%20public%20services/
The Budget 2023 Expenditure Report, published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform details my Department's Abridged Estimates (Part III), and gives information on the estimated current and capital allocations for 2023 in respect of each relevant programme/scheme, on the basis of the financial provision made for my Department following decisions made in the context of Budget 2023. The Expenditure Report can be found at the following link:
www.gov.ie/en/publication/eb6ec-budget-2023-expenditure-reports/
The Report does not include additional funding for housing purposes provided by certain local authorities from Local Property Tax (LPT) receipts and amounting to some €168 million in 2023.
