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
1:20 pm
Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Who is accountable to the Department for the funding provided? Does anybody in the local authority system report to Ms Tallon or one of her colleagues in terms of how the money is spent? The Comptroller and Auditor General plays a different type of role from that of local authority auditors. His role is to investigate Departments to determine how money is spent and whether the taxpayer got value for money. Is the same happening in the local authority system? I am probing for the audit trail. Are the local authorities operating as separate islands?
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