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- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Is it only a matter of months?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Once the officials are fully aware this is now the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: The local government audit always interests me. Ms Tallon said earlier that 2011 was being dealt with.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Has 2011 shown up any concerns in relation to the indebtedness of local authorities generally?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Is it the view of the Department that those who are in debt can be controlled? Is there a level of indebtedness within some of the local authorities that they simply will not be able to handle? Has the Department to plan for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Is there an overall figure for debt?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: What year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: What was it in 2010?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: It was €4.9 billion in 2011.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: In 2010?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Are all the returns in?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Regarding the general comment on the 2011 account, which I believe Ms Geraldine Tallon stated was issued in January, what are the main concerns of the local government audit section regarding local government and the general auditory position of local authorities?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Does the Department receive reports on companies established by local authorities?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: My point is that the local authority would have invested a large amount of money in some of these projects, so taxpayers' money is tied up in the project. Who has oversight of that set of accounts? Sometimes it is a private limited company, but it is taking taxpayers' money from the county council.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: So he or she has oversight.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: That starts in 2012?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: With regard to housing stock in local authorities, is that something the Department monitors? A considerable number of houses are currently boarded up and not allocated. Therefore, there is a loss of rent and potential accommodation for the thousands of people on the housing list. How does the Department monitor that in each local authority and ensure there is a turnover in the housing...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: With regard to policy, it appears that the direction social housing is taking is rent allowance and the rental accommodation scheme. The authorities are not buying or building new schemes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Is the Department approaching the end of the costs of tribunals now? The Department was responsible for the Mahon tribunal.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (27 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: What has it cost to date?