Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste
10:00 am
Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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Reference has been made to the fact that there is a reliance on sending warning letters and a very poor record in prosecuting anybody. The fines are small and nobody has ever been sent to prison. Does Mr. McCarthy accept that there is an over-reliance on sending letters?