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

Mr. John McCarthy:

The significant number of inspections that have been done is one barometer. However, when the number of inspections is set in the context of a risk-based strategy, where one is targeting the inspections at areas of higher risk, to come to a point where there is a low level of infraction against a background of inspections that are targeted at the higher potential risk areas, that is a good space to be in.