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:

The council sets the policy within which the chief executive must operate. The council sets the budget. There are a range of powers whereby the council can require a chief executive to desist from a particular action or carry out a lawful action, obviously. There are a whole range of powers that are set down by the Oireachtas. That is what is there. If there is a sense then that there is an issue, and we talked about this a little earlier with the Chair, I suppose it is around the training issues. Certainly, the powers are set out in legislation.

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