Ms Geraldine Tallon:

I understand they have set out a process through their audit committee under which they will do that and that is absolutely correct and appropriate. I have lots of interests with all local authorities in the area of waste management because of the responsibility we have for waste management policy and waste management legislation, and the ownership we have of community legislation and our obligations at EU level in terms of our performance under the waste framework directive. So there are lots of reasons I would be talking to any individual local authority or specific local authorities in the waste area, but at the same time there are very direct accountabilities within local government for spend and for the application of policy in specific circumstances and for the adoption of policy within a local authority. They are being properly exercised in the Dublin City Council situation.