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
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source
It is not so much a question as what I wish to say after our interaction today. There is now a hugely increased budget in the Department. For the past three years, 50% of that budget, which is now in excess of €6 billion, is coming through the Exchequer. There is provision for the Comptroller and Auditor General to take over the auditing function of the local authorities and I expect the Secretary General will have no objection to making a recommendation to the Minister that section 8 of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993 be invoked at this stage so the Comptroller and Auditor General can take over that function. To be fair to the Secretary General, there is far too much in this for him to be answerable, and he is reticent on those things for which he is answerable.
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