Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 October 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.

9:30 am

Mr. Niall Gleeson:

The health and safety programme was a huge part of the transition and of the management of the take-up. We have hired an additional 40 health and safety experts into the Uisce Éireann side of things. Like I said, before we took over from the local authorities, we analysed the health and safety plans. Whatever gaps there were, we will fill them.

I am quite happy to talk to the Deputy later on specific instances. We definitely have a programme in place where all this stuff and all these should be captured, for instance, the critical worker and the assessments. I am surprised it is an issue now because the data are very recent. We would be taking local authority information as to the capability of the worker so we would probably not have done very many medical assessments because they have transferred in recent months. Maybe there is a backlog or whatever. I am quite happy to look into it. We would be relying on information provided by the local authorities as far as those assessments are concerned.

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