Councils face spending controls to improve scrutiny of €6bn budgets
Legal ‘anomaly’ means local authorities do not have to reveal their internal financial workings which could disclose any weaknesses or losses
Local councils are going to have to comply with new spending controls to improve the scrutiny of their €6 billion budgets due to an ‘anomaly’ in the rules.
Last week it emerged that Dublin City Council had a PRSI bill of up to €20 million after it admitted that it misclassified a “small number” of workers who were put in the wrong tax category.
Almost all public bodies are required to publish a “statement of ...
