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:
I have to say that one does not connect across to the other. The issues that are covered by the Comptroller and Auditor General in his report are around the extent to which we are effectively operating the formal requirements under the waste shipment regulation. Those who are engaged in illegal diesel laundering are well outside of that space and must be pursued through a very different and rigorous enforcement process. As for the members of the House of Lords and others the Deputy mentioned, I do not know the extent to which their information has been passed to the relevant authorities.