Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 16 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
1:40 pm
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Who commissions the Local Government Audit Service? It is the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government. This is an appendix to that report so the Department must have a responsibility for this. Apart from the fact that the Department has spent money on it, it has also commissioned an audit which is pretty damning. The Department has also called in the city manager. So there is responsibility in the Department. If there was not, it would not have called him in.