Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2014
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2014
Finance Accounts 2014

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Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----so it gets the taxes. Is the Department concerned about what has been revealed in the past ten or 15 years by the Comptroller and Auditor General regarding the poor value for money achieved by some Departments in terms of inefficiencies? Is it satisfied, for example, with regard to the €2.6 billion, which is taxpayers' money regardless of where it comes from, that will go to Irish Water up to 2016 which is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General?

The PAC has no input into it. Is Mr. Moran satisfied that there is no public scrutiny of the local government audit, which is outside the remit of the committee and the Comptroller and Auditor General, or allocations such as €6 million for Limerick's bid to become European City of Culture? It is difficult to know who will audit that. As legislation is prepared for the spending of such money, whether it is by local government or Irish Water, why is an effort not made by the Department, in particular, to ensure the money collected is spent correctly and that structures are in place to oversee that spend by having the Comptroller and Auditor General audit these large figures and provide for public scrutiny of those figures and a debate on them? Surely Mr. Moran must have a concern-----

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