Today the Department of Environment  were before the PAC. We were examining in particular the special report carried out by the Controller and Auditor General on the Dublin Docklands Development Authority Authority.

The central theme of this week’s meeting was the Department of Environment’s oversight function before, during and after the Irish Glass Bottle site acquisition and in particular the sanction given by the Department to increase the Authority’s borrowing limit and permission to enter a joint venture.

I focused my time on issues regarding the potential conflict of interest that may have arisen at the time of the acquisition of the Glass Bottle site.

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