Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 6 - Land Aggregation Scheme
Chapter 7 - Matters Arising from Audit of Vote 25 - Environment, Community and Local Government in Relation to Water Services

10:00 am

Ms Maria Graham:

What I have is the annual amount, which is about €124 million. Obviously, that is now the responsibility of Irish Water, in transferring the names of the DBOs under the statutory instrument. What I certainly do not have is how those liabilities were reflected in local authority accounts, but it is not a payment. It was one of the ongoing operational contracts that was transferred. It would be a matter for Irish Water to look at the duration of the DBOs.