After 10 hours debate the €97m Meath County Council budget has concluded. Fianna Fáil County Councillors proposals for the €3.5m Local Property Tax surplus to be spent in the local areas was defeated by 22 votes to 18. To make matters worse the districts of Kells, Trim and Navan Area lost out on a separate vote which saw €450,000 additional funding allocated to the Laytown, Ashbourne & Dunshaughlin areas and only €150,000 allocated to Kells, Trim and Navan. Shamefully 3 Kells area cllrs voted for this with David Gilroy, Sarah Reilly & Eugene Cassidy endorsing this plan to reduce funding to the Kells area (which includes Athboy, Oldcastle, Carlanstown, Nobber, etc) It was opposed by myself, my colleague Cllr Bryan Reilly and Sinn Feins Johnny Guirke and Michael Gallagher. A FAIRER BUDGET FOR MEATH The €3.5m Question Fianna Fáil councillors in Meath proposed today that the €3.5m surplus from the Local Property Tax be spent on community initiatives across the towns and villages of the county. However, this was rejected by the controlling group of Fine Gael and Independent councillors who used the money to pay debt on land banks and subsuming the money into the main income stream. Fianna Fáil proposed Spending the surplus LPT money of €3.5m purely on the community Not increasing the rates on businesses in the towns The re-instatement of €2m housing grants removed by Government It is scandalous that just €1m of the €18m collected in property tax will find its way back to the local communities. So there will be no delivery of the type of things people expected to get from their property tax when they paid it to Government. Under Fianna Fails plan a total of €600,000 would have gone to each local area for spend on community projects.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:19:56 +0000
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