Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
There are a few things. Earlier, we promised to provide a note on that to Deputy Carroll MacNeill. The Deputy is quite right that we are constrained, in that the accountability for local government funds is dealt with separately. The legislation and legal provisions dealing with it are separate. Instead of having a role for the Comptroller and Auditor General, there is a role for a local government auditor. I suppose I am precluded from commenting on that, as it is the policy position, but we have agreed to furnish the committee with a note on the issues and what flows from them.