Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 October 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities.
9:30 am
Mr. Niall Gleeson:
On an ad hocbasis, local authority water services have been maintaining a lot of the developer provided water services infrastructure, DPI, facilities, as we refer to them. As the Deputy has said, many are in poor condition. Some of them are actually well run by the management companies. Some of the estates have groups that get together and run them. Others are not in good condition. Because the local authorities are moving out of water services, they will de factobecome our problem. We are working on a programme-----