Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
11:40 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
There are 22 licensed local authority sites and the cost to 31 December 2013 was €41.35 million. The estimated future cost is €840,000. If these were licensed sites, why did that happen? Were any officials within the various counties responsible for monitoring the licences or determining what was actually happening after the licences were granted? It seems to me that if individuals in each county were tasked to do this and examine the licensed sites, then those individuals, collectively, have cost the State the best part of €42 million plus.
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