Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Normally, the legislation setting up a particular semi-State body specifies the auditor and if it is not the Comptroller and Auditor General then we cannot go near them.

We try to work in co-operation with the Local Government Audit Service, where there is an area of responsibility that overlaps. For example, we are working on a review of the arrangements for motor tax collection, some of which is collected centrally and paid into the local government fund and some of which is collected locally through motor tax offices. We are co-operating with the Local Government Audit Service to present a report on it and I expect to complete it in the autumn. We are trying to ensure audit arrangements follow the money to the greatest extent possible and that there are no grey areas or areas where something is failing at the edges of responsibility.