Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts

12:30 pm

Photo of John McGuinnessJohn McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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My point is that the local authority would have invested a large amount of money in some of these projects, so taxpayers' money is tied up in the project. Who has oversight of that set of accounts? Sometimes it is a private limited company, but it is taking taxpayers' money from the county council.