Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There are 17,700 people with local authority mortgages. They would not have mortgages from local authorities if they were better off, in which case they would have got their mortgages from a bank. Those 17,700 people are paying by far the most expensive mortgage protection insurance in the country, by a mile. In their interests, I want information on this. Mr. McCarthy might say it is not in the Department's Vote, but he is the Accounting Officer for the Department to which all those bodies are in some way connected. He is the man I can ask to get the answer. Is he familiar with what I am talking about?

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