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
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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What happens if there is a shortfall in the operations of Irish Water? When the Department started this process, it had the makings of a business model that would transfer assets to Irish Water, which would then finance itself. Adjustments were subsequently made by way of policy. As that policy stands at present what happens to Irish Water if there is a major shortfall in its income?