Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 December 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage - Programme A - Housing
Financial Statements 2022 - The Housing Agency
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 11 - Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme Sites
9:30 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
Yes, the control environment has radically changed since prior to the crash. There is a huge amount of process and auditing. The Comptroller and Auditor General has a role, as does this committee, at the higher level. There is auditing right down through the system of internal controls around how land is procured and how the procurement of anything is done these days. There is a huge amount of scrutiny, valuations at various levels and independence. There is a whole series of checks and balances. There is a huge nervousness throughout the public service after the crash and the issues that led up to that. Nobody wants to be in that space again where people are seen to have hugely overpaid for something, for example.