Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
No, and it is important for me to add context as well. The response did go on to tell me to contact the individual agencies under the aegis of the Department but, as Mr. Doyle can imagine, I might not have the resources in my office to do that whereas the Custom House might. However, I was able to get this information from other Departments. This can be done and it is probably a fruitful exercise for the Department as well as it is for the wider public. I will move on to my next question because I will be caught for time otherwise. Apologies, also on the public procurement, I have no doubt the Department's compliance with public procurement is good and well audited but what happens after the procurement? What measures does it have in place to track progress on projects and track costs as they happen? How does it manage that centrally? Is it managed centrally or does it leave it to the bodies underneath?
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