Spending by division
Road Transport & Safety is by far the largest division, at €19.9m in 2018. The dark part of each bar is the net cost: what is left once the division’s own income is counted.
Net costCovered by the division’s own income
What pays for itself
Across all divisions, budgeted income covers 59% of spending in 2018, leaving €22.2m to be met from commercial rates, the Local Property Tax and the Local Government Fund. Housing and Building is budgeted to bring in more than it spends, mostly from rents and housing grants.
How it changed, 2015 to 2018
Total budgeted spending went from €53.6m to €54.5m. Recreation and Amenity grew the most, by 17%; Agriculture, Education, Health & Welfare fell the most, by 41%.
| Year | Spending | Income | Net cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | €53.6m | €32.3m | €21.4m |
| 2016 | €54.0m | €33.0m | €21.0m |
| 2017 | €52.4m | €30.9m | €21.5m |
| 2018 | €54.5m | €32.2m | €22.2m |
How we worked this out
From Table A of the Annual Budget for 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018: the rows for the eight service divisions, using budgeted expenditure and income (income is shown as a negative number in the tables). Net cost is expenditure minus income. These are adopted budgets, not outturns, and 2018 is the latest year the council has published on its Hub.