Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government

9:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

The way in which the process was brought to a conclusion in 2014, I think, under the legislation was that the penalties were applied to undischarged liabilities and they were increased and frozen in time. The mechanism for picking up those was, in effect, to place a charge on the property and collect it when the properties are sold.