Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
Getting a loan is the role of the councillors. They did not rush into getting a loan. In fact, it would seem, from memory, and I am going by what I have been told, that the approval was finally given. The land was purchased subject to the councillors approving it. Looking back on it, there was a whole process where the councillors, looking back retrospectively, seemed to do their best and ask questions. I was on the council so I put my hand up and we asked questions. It is unclear whether the estate agent acted for both sides. On a general issue, many times in my period as a local councillor we asked repeatedly for services in terms of solicitors and auctioneers to go out to tender.
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