Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 13:

In page 26, to delete lines 5 to 21 and substitute the following:"Comptroller and Auditor General, give evidence to that Committee.".

The section verifies the accountability of the chairperson to the Committee of Public Accounts. There is a feeling at the moment that the Government is secretly uneasy with it and the role that it is undertaking. I thought it was unusual for the standing orders of the committee to be repeated in legislation. Is this an effort by the Government to copperfasten the remit under which the Committee of Public Accounts seeks accountability? My amendment communicates that unease.