Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
To return to the local authority issue, the planning regulator is now telling local authorities that they have rezoned too much land, and the local authorities are looking five, ten or 15 years ahead because they want to put in the water infrastructure. Does Mr. Moloney accept there is no point in putting in a 2 inch water pipe to service 50 houses if there will be 500 houses in the area in ten years? That is the kind of issue I am talking about. If the planning regulator is now controlling what local authorities are doing but if those local authorities have no say about what Irish Water does, where are we headed? It will amount to a huge increased net cost to the taxpayer.
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