Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 5 - Vote Budget Management

1:20 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

I think over €90 million has been spent. I understand this is an issue for Dublin City Council. They have procedures there. The city manager accounts for public money to councillors in the first instance. I refer to the elected representatives on the audit committees of the council and on the local government audit committee. There are procedures in place to account for that spending. It has been a protracted project going back over the decades. A great deal of sensitive planning and environmental issues are involved. I do not know what the current status of this project, on which Dublin City Council has spent an amount of money, is. It seems, based on current policy, that we are not going to see the incinerator. Obviously, that means the rate payers of the city will take a significant hit. In the first instance, it is up to the city manager in Dublin to account to the councillors.

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