Thomas Gould (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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I was a councillor for 12 years. Should representatives of the Local Government Audit Service, LGAS, come in and sit down with the elected representatives to go through the reports for each local authority? Senator Boyhan made the point earlier about the time that passes before we get the report and the local authority audit committee gets a look at it and the time to go through it. There is an awful lot of work involved, which has to be recognised, for the people in the local authorities to carry out this work and go through the reports. Our guests are the people with the information and expertise. Could we consider bringing in the approach I have suggested? Every local authority would have issues with different parts of the report. Have our guests ever considered such an approach? Has it ever been asked of them?