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:

We can get the committee a note on that. Some of the larger privately owned sites were associated with illegal dumping activity and various criminal and civil cases were taken. I confess that I am speaking somewhat from memory, as this issue has moved away from us, but we will get the committee an update. Apart from any criminal process, some of the property owners were found to have been practically of nil means and were not pursuable.