Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for being here this morning and for dealing with the questions being raised. My first question relates to the "RTÉ Investigates" programme on 23 March 2022. I will quote two examples they gave about the lack of accountability. The first example was Cavan County Council in 2017 and an allegation of fake invoices. An investigation was initiated but there has been no publication of the results of that investigation. The second example goes back further. It goes back to 2009 with Cork County Council. It was to do with land where the council had agreed to pay €11 million for lands in Charleville, which a number of months earlier had been sold for only €8 million. Again, an investigation was carried out but results were never published. It went back to 2009. This all raises the question about accountability. This is public money. It is taxpayers' money and it is ratepayers' money. How does the Department deal with a situation where there are investigations and still no reports have been published or made available to the public?