Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

10:20 am

Photo of Shane RossShane Ross (Dublin South, Independent)
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When it leaves the Department, it goes to CIE and is lost somewhere in the mess there. I am not sure the auditors regard it as their duty to see that it goes to the right place. Is there any way we can include the subsidy which is getting bigger rather than smaller in our remit to ensure it is directed and spent as the State wishes it to be spent?