Government announces €1.5 million baseline funding increase for Kilkenny County Council

Government has announced that Local Property Tax (LPT) baseline funding to Kilkenny County Council is set to increase from about €10.67 million to €12.17 million.

All 31 local authorities will see baseline funding increase by a minimum of €1.5m in 2024.

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Every local authority receives a minimum (’baseline’) amount of funding from the Local Property Tax, supplemented by funding from the exchequer where a local authority’s LPT income is lower than its baseline.

This baseline funding is essential and recognises the essential role played by local authorities, not only in delivering a broad range of services day-to-day, but also in successfully leading the local response to emergency situations.

As well as assisting local authorities to meet the costs of providing essential services, ensuring a minimum increase in baseline funding to each local authority enables a level of flexibility and discretion for each authority to address local resource demands arising from the delivery of priority Government initiatives.

The baseline funding increase for Kilkenny has been welcomed by Cllr Maria Dollard.

"I welcome the increase of €1.5 million from central Government to our local Kilkenny County Council," she said.

"County councils are limited in how much revenue they can generate themselves. We provide an enormous range of services to the people of Kilkenny.

"In recent years this was expanded to include playing a pivotal role in the response to Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine.

"This extra funding is badly needed as each year councillors must make make very difficult decisions in order to have a balanced budget and the funding from central government is critical to providing these services."