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:

It was and we started in the autumn with pilots in Carlow and Waterford. The Minister announced in recent days that we are expanding it nationwide to 800 units and we will see what that tells us. The initial feedback from Waterford and Carlow was that there was quite a bit of interest from property owners.