Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is this a change of governance and control in local authorities? I asked this question before. The former Chairman, Deputy McGuinness, also raised it in the previous Committee of Public Accounts about investigating the spend in local authorities and how they control their moneys. We were told the Comptroller and Auditor General had no control of that; it was outside his remit. Is this a change? Can we now call officials from local authorities to appear before the committee? For example, if there were a question mark over Kilkenny County Council, could we bring in officials to scrutinise? Is this a change?