Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Brexit is holding up an awful lot. That will be very welcome when it happens. Does the liability under the capital assistance scheme rest with the Department or the local authority, or is it part of general Government debt? Are the local authorities still counted as part of it? Where does the liability rest in this instance?