John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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I will give Mr. Hayes my view. Enterprise Ireland needs to ensure it has a clear line of sight on the audit conducted by the local government audit team so that it gets some sort of report on the money Enterprise Ireland has given to these local enterprise offices so that in turn the Comptroller and Auditor General can look at and we can examine it. It is all taxpayers' money.

I have a deep concern about the audit of local government and adding to it. I hear very little public debate about money and I see nothing other than occasional controversies throughout the country about how money was spent and they keep on telling us that is not within our remit. The taxpayer finds that hard to understand. I would hate to see another layer of money being given that cannot be dealt with in terms of audit by the Comptroller and Auditor General or by us. We will be relying heavily on Enterprise Ireland's reporting mechanism from each of those LEOs.