Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

If we perceived or were aware of weaknesses or failures in relation to our programmes, we would make those known to the local authority. We would request action on those. We fund on the basis of our processes being complied with. We have got a lot of process that we put in place in relation to the disbursements of funding through our programmes and they need to be complied with where we are distributing money.

Our ultimate sanction, of course, is theoretically - "theoretically" is probably not the correct word - to suspend funding in a particular programme. I acknowledge that is often quite difficult to do because the public are depending on these programmes. That is a particularly important factor.

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