Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 February 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services
10:00 am
John Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
People are confused about statutory responsibility and accountability responsibility. Statutory responsibility is one job, and we know the statutory responsibility the agency has. However, if one takes the projection up to 2016, with the subvention and all the payments from the National Pensions Reserve Fund and the loans from the capital contributions, it is €1.3 billion, which is a great deal of money, so there is a clear difference. The Comptroller and Auditor General would have done the audit on Irish Water, but when it comes to the difficulties, is Mr. McCarthy the Accounting Officer until 2016 with Irish Water?
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