Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

11:50 am

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Does the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform have a view in respect of the point I am making? Ms Tallon indicated that her Department focuses on what happens when the project is built and provides a template in that regard. Thereafter, it is the responsibility of the contracting body to ensure the project is working in the way that was originally envisaged. The latter represents a potential vulnerability in the context of this approach. Would it not be possible to take a more centralised approach to assist local authorities and the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in carrying out the type of work to which I refer in the way we would desire?

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