Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
10:50 am
Mr. John McCarthy:
The turnaround time can vary quite a bit from the very straightforward to situations where the property is boarded up as part of a bigger regeneration programme. Looking at the average time taken across the country, in 2012, the average time was approximately 19 weeks.
What I would say is that as part of the process of establishing the new national oversight and audit commission, one of the areas of work it will take forward very specifically is this performance agenda within local government, both to report on performance but perhaps more important, to try to get best practice in one local authority replicated in other local authorities so that we bring up the performance of the sector generally.