Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 March 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships
9:00 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We are supposed to find out whether taxpayers' money is spent in the correct way but we are not allowed determined who made the decisions. Our whole talk this morning in private session was because there is no accountability because officials consistently - not necessarily the group that is here today - come in knowing there is no outcome. There is no sanction and no issue. The house always wins, the ship will sail in whatever direction it wants, whatever way suits them. No matter how difficult the questions are in search of the truth, on behalf of the people, who are what it is all about, we cannot go there.
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