Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 8: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Local Government Fund Financial Statement 2016
Special Report No. 97 of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Administration and Collection of Motor Taxes
9:00 am
Shane Cassells (Meath West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I am sure the witnesses will understand my frustration in terms of the control over local government. It is like a bold child that no one trusts to do its work, which is frustrating. Previously, engineering staff and councillors in a particular county could go about doing their own business but as things stand they now have to seek permission and sanction in this regard from the Department. Why, Chairman, when we have councillors elected by the people to do this work was this layer of bureaucracy introduced?
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