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Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: How many of them have been rejected?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: Does "vast bulk" mean 90%?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: The property tax is collected and administered by the Revenue Commissioners. How much of the money collected will go into the local government fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: What percentage is that of the overall sum raised by the property tax?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: Will it all go into the fund?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: How is the figure broken down? If a particular constituency such as Kildare provides 10% of the overall property tax take, does the 10% remain within the confines of that local authority area? How will it be divided up?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: Local action groups spent €43.6 million less than was provided in Leader funds. What happened to that money? Why did the groups not spend the money?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: To all intents and purposes, the enterprise boards have been subsumed into the local authorities. That is a move with which I strongly disagree. I have had a very good experience with my local enterprise board, but some Deputies have not. The last place the staff and decision-making processes of local enterprise boards should be is within the apparatus of local authorities, particularly in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: What involvement does the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government have with the mechanism - the service level agreements - to which Mr. McCarthy refers?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: Therefore, the point was to save money. If the Department has no involvement in the service level agreements, what was the point of doing all of this?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: Therefore, the Department is trying to interweave what local authorities do when it comes to the development of enterprise with what local enterprise boards would have done in the past. It does, therefore, have a role.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: Therefore, they are overseeing the effectiveness and success of the policy, but the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government has no role, despite the fact that the LEOs are located in local government buildings.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: That is very odd. It is sometimes difficult to even contact Enterprise Ireland by telephone and Mr. McCarthy is stating it is going to be responsible for determining whether what is involved is going to be a success. This is absolutely critical in the context of local development. The people with whom I have dealt for the past 20 years are very good at what they do. Mr. McCarthy is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: I know that, but who will be responsible for determining whether they are doing their jobs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: On local representation, an unusual phenomenon occurred on polling day in the recent local elections. I refer to the fact that voters in Clonakilty elected their own mayor. I do not know if Mr. McCarthy is aware of this, but it is an interesting development. It was considered there was a dearth of representation in the aftermath of the abolition of town councils and, as a result, voters...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: The Act makes specific reference to these bodies.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: The Act does not preclude the existence of other representative structures in more localised areas. What is going to happen is that some people in areas and towns which are used to having such representation - for very practical purposes - will, like the people of Clonakilty, elect their own mayor. A couple of thousand people showed up the day after the local elections. This will occur...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: I welcome Mr. McCarthy and the officials from the Department. Was he involved in dealing with nitrates ten years ago?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: I was trying to place Mr. McCarthy. A familiar face is good. I have five or six questions without a common thread.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Jun 2014)

John Deasy: Why not wait until we get a response from him, for God's sake?