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

Mr. John McCarthy:

The audit report is to the local authority. Audit committees were put in place following the Local Government Reform Act 2014. Perhaps my colleagues will speak about the practical local workings out of this. They are hugely important in terms of considering the auditor's report and reporting back-----